you forgot an example. maybe the closest one.
nazie germany.
its the same. "cult of the individual" mentality" with pretty much the same outcome. the big difference (and its a huge one, thankfully, for penn state) is that in germany pretty much everyone was involved.
in happy valley, the participants were limited to, what, ten, twenty, a hundred at most.
other than that, its the same phenomena...absoulte power corrupts absolutely.
one man gets power, wins a lot, consolidates that power, is lionized as a god, and has a massive moral failure. he covers it up, because he can. for a time.
in the end, though, he cant. everything unravels. he brings it all down.
its a tragedy. literally.
if you dont believe that, just go to the penn state boards, he is STILL being defended there by well over half the posters. they STILL can't believe it.
and they defend him by saying, "hes dead. he cant defend himself."
well, so what. Hitlers dead too.
dont get me wrong. im not sayin joepa is comparable to hitler. Im saying what happened at penn state is a lot like what happened in germany.
one man rule.