The Human Heart - It is Incapable of Learning

 It's summer. The season of flirtation. Caution, forget it. 

So, during this magical time those of us sending out romantic signals/responding to them know how easily it might have been  for successful men to, well, to use that old-line crude expression: fall for the wrong dame. In the Sunny Balwani federal fraud trial, today started off closing arguments. Then it will be up to the jury to decide on 12 counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Each, if there is a conviction, carries up to 20 years in prison. 

Before becoming Elizabeth Holmes' lover and then business partner Balwani was a financially well-off former entrepreneur. He had it made.

Then he invested a big chunk of his money in her startup Theranos. If he had left it at that he might have, like so many investors, just had lost the funds. But, no, he accepted an executive position at Theranos. Now he might lose his freedom for a long time.

Then there is a saga of financial genius Leon Black. Like Bill Gates and Bill Clinton, he might have been able to shake off the Jeffrey Epstein connection. Reptutation restoration can work miracles these days.

But, unfortunately along the way on his journey he fell for Russian model Guzel Ganieva. Eventually she filed a lawsuit against him with allegations of sexual misconduct. Then an amendment to that contended he tried to pimp her out to Epstein.

The media couldn't resist that story. Unfortunately for Black he fed that media beast with filing a sensationalistic countersuit. As I detail in this article published in O'Dwyer's Public Relations, he opened himself to possibly being transported beyond a branding comeback.

But there are no lessons we humans will be able to learn from all this.

In the mystical tarot card there is a major one The Lovers. It screams ambiguity. There could be connection or conflict and destruction. A boomer (who is expected to know better, right) I spent too long on the phone this afternoon with my best friend. It was, you got it, about some guy. I crowed that he is a decade younger than I am. And quite easy on the eyes.

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