Blogpost # M. 465 THE COMPANY YOU KEEP

It is pragmatically necessary that life in an interactive society requires the ability to exercise one’s judgment concerning the character and reliability of others with whom one has meaningful contact. It is wise to eschew initial impressions, conceivably based upon unrelated past experience or the subjective nuance of one’s judgmental personality. Nevertheless, it is vitally important that we entrust our friendship and interactive relationships to predictably reliable respondents, which necessarily mandates their perceptive evaluation.

The varied personal techniques in the thematic evaluation of others, regardless of one’s earnest resolve, will often empirically suffer from the stereotypical presence of past, analogous impressions with like past relationships and experiences, and thus be unfair and specifically incorrect. Fairness and accuracy require a more reliable yardstick than the unfair dynamics of personalized impression.

The testimonial experience of others, an employment recorortd educational transcript, and employment resume, when usefully available, in addition to the pertinent and indicative responses to relevantly cogent questions, are useful and appropriate, in an employment interview or, over time, in personal relationships.

One virtually universal consideration is the indicative nature of the company that he keeps as an objective indication of fundamental character and moral inclinations. Many years ago, on a visit to the historic site home of the great Norwegian composer, Edvart Grieg, we were greatly impressed to view a large, framed photograph of Maestro Grieg sitting at a large dinner table, in the company of many of the luminaries of his age, including Albert Einstein, and were duly impressed.

The chosen social ambience of the individual to be evaluated of, is an objective indication and constitutes the background for a dynamic portrait of his characterological tastes and intimate persona.

The extant, repulsive saga of the wholesale, box store enterprise of underage sex trafficking by Jeffrey Epstein is relevant to our present thematic mode of characterological evaluation. The decades of repulsive underage sex trafficking on the part of the murdered or suicidal Epstein make the fact of brisk social interaction with him a cogent factor in the evaluation of character.

Presently, among the rolling tsunami of media reportage, relevant to Epstein, former Democratic President, Bill Clinton has been summoned to testify and clarify his relationship with the degenerate billionaire Epstein, as a tactical diversion from the intimate and regular commerce of Donald J. Trump with the wholesale child sex entrepreneur; a thematically significant indicator of Trump’s unwholesome and perverse persona.

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