alexzanda's o.p.i.

ROYAL PICTURES SCANDAL:

THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE

 

 

It has become a trend to neglect the now so thin a line demarcating what should be public as against what should be private.  The advent of the social media made it so.  Private recordings are lost to public viewing whether by intension or not.  Yet I dare say that the world is yet to see the worst of it. 

 

Although that of the current royal picture scandal would not be categorized as a case against social media, the interest of this blog on the scandal wishes to align certain existing features of the scandal to that of the cases involving the social media.

 

 

 

Firstly, what is private should be kept private!  Banks would preach to their customers that the safest way to protect your ATM card pin is to memorize it.  If you want a picture or video recording of your private “dance moves,” make and keep it in your head.  How do you justify the fact that your brain’s storage capacity which outweighs that of the smartest computer in the world would not be enough to conjure a vivid imagination when required to warrant a private recording that could easily become the next x-rated short movie for public viewing?

Honestly, I don’t see why the royal couple cannot have a sun tan naked when they want to. But what I cannot relate with is if you don’t want to be caught doing it then don’t do it.  This I know, if the royal couple had chosen to go to a nude beach for their tan, every other naked swimmer on the beach would have appeared invisible in the photo shoot attempt to get the royal couple. 

Now to the bunch of journalistic “gurus” who feel justified to show the world how dutiful they are to their watchdog responsibilities, it is this kind of unbridled excess in editorial decision makings that is setting embassies on fire around the Arab region.  And if they think there is no relationship between both situations then please continue to indulge yourselves until you pick on someone that will not be as civil as the British royal family.   

 

Finally, there’s an African adage that there must be something wrong with the man whom when informed that a mad man armed with a machete has taken position behind him replies that he was not going to do anything about it until he is unable to find his head.  The adage is for both sides of the divide.    

To think is to reason and to reason is to understand.