Defending Rooney

I know Wayne Rooney has been done to death already, but I don’t know why he is vilified so terribly. Like any other man, Rooney had had his pleasure with whores and that was that. The only people he should be responsible to are his wife and the other members of his family. There is no reason why his sex life should be a matter of national discussion when Britain’s economy is in shambles and so many of its youths are unemployed or not in school. If he wasn’t a celebrity nobody would have cared what he did.

Sanctimonious scum are condemning him for his actions, arguing that as a professional player Rooney has an obligation to be a role model to youngsters, to conduct himself in an exemplary manner befitting his status. Such arrant bollocks! Wayne Rooney is paid to play football, to win matches for his club. As long as he does his job well, why should we be concerned about what he does off the field? He is not paid to be a role model and has no obligations to behave like one.

There is basically no difference between a man who earns $10,000 a month and another making $100,000 a week. Both have the financial resources to play the field and chances are that they will indulge themselves. The only attribute which really matters is the celebrity status (or lack thereof) of the philanderer. Journalists, column writers, and their detestable ilk know all too well the public’s need to revel in another’s misery and will satisfy that need. To the working Joe who works like a slave to make ends meet and who is unappreciated in the bargain, it is gratifying to see ‘winners’ who have the best things in life embarrassed and treated like a rat on the run by the masses who despite of their secret jealousy of their ‘superiors’, still aspire to become like those they despise.

Humans are animals and will therefore look after their own interests. Attaching some spiritual value or otherworldly quality to ourselves in an attempt to deny our animalistic nature is perfidious to say the least. Like our quadruped cousins, we eat, drink, sleep, shit and have sex. We help one another because it is beneficial to do so, and not because of some intrinsic moral values or godly decrees. Scattered and disunited peoples do not have the collective strength that comes from mutual cooperation, and it stands to reason that a united tribe is stronger and can survive better than ragtag bands of disparate individuals, and it is precisely this collectivism that allows them to more easily pass on their genes. Humans are pack animals and creatures of habit. They require a common structure by which they can share a common identity. It is from this need that arises culture, religion, social norms and tradition. New-Agers and pseudo-intellectuals who argue for human ‘universality’ and argue against the relevance of culture understand not the principles of evolution. They are sadly, out of touch with reality.

Back to Rooney. “Let he who is without sin cast the first stone,” said the ‘Good’ Book. Are those who are bent on reducing Rooney to smithereens with their moral platitudes not without fault of their own? I think not. The people who are the most ‘moral’, who are the quickest to condemn, to tell others what to do and expound this and that moral rule are often the worst offenders themselves, culprits of all kinds of infringements and perpetuators of a variety of crimes. Throughout the sad history of the human race such charlatans have always existed to prey on the gullible and desperate. From the ascetic who demands expensive contributions while proclaiming the advantages of a life of abstinence to the priest who rapes children and then hides behind his institution, professes his regret, seeks forgiveness from his non-existent deity and thereafter given the licence to go forth and sin again, these people are but a subspecies of the common masses on which they ply their despicable trade. I rate them lower than parasites and brown slime; they are indeed the greatest hypocrites of all, psychic vampires and a waste of the planet’s resources.