The powerful and the pauper

Now that Dominique Strauss-Kahn is indicted and that we won't know much about the next directions of that bizarre story for another couple of weeks, we'll hopefully get a break from the French media that – like the rest of the political class in that country – have been worried more about the fate of their flamboyant politician than the utterly embarrassing and life-changing situation of his alleged victim.

This shows, if it needed to, that power and fame are everything in the world we're living into. People tend to project their dreams and emotions on the rich and famous and don't give much attention to the multitude that are scratching a living around the foundations of our glittering society. A really sad moral story that, because of that nature, will make the unfolding of another sordid soap opera fascinating to watch...