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The Evolution of Dirt

June 15, 2017

On the 21st of September 2015, the Daily Mail published extracts from a biography about Ex-British Prime Minister David Cameron, called Call Me Dave, claiming that during his years in university, Cameron put one of his private parts inside a dead pig’s mouth as part of an initiation process for a private club at the university. Soon thereafter referred to as Piggate, the scandal was dismissed by Cameron as “utter nonsense,” and was eventually overshadowed by the next scandal and wave of allegations about something else. The magnitude of Piggate was not significant because it was Cameron’s word against another’s, but do you think that that would be the case in 30 years time if something like that were to happen now? Absolutely not. The incident would probably be saved somewhere on a phone or embedded in Snapchat memory or there would at least be a screenshot of it in someone’s old picture files; this is because dirt has evolved. When Cameron and all other leaders and significant figures in societies all over the world were growing up, they were not in jeopardy of having one of their friends take a picture…


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