A pimp isn't merely a person who obtains or manages customers for prostitutes. A pimp can be a procurer of most anything or anyone that will satisfy the desires of those seeking their gratification. A pimp is a panderer, a fixer, a facilitator. Those skilled in identifying desires and arranging the satisfaction of them are the most able pimps. Those whose customers are wealthy are the most successful.
We've been witnesses to the career of a demigod, perhaps even a god, of pimps. There's nothing in his history which indicates he had extraordinary physical or mental talents, and yet he became extraordinarily successful in making money for himself and others and catering to the wishes and lusts of the rich, powerful and famous.
His remarkable life seems to serve as irrefutable evidence that it is who you know, not what you know, that's important. But perhaps that's not entirely true, as it's what he knew about those he knew that enhanced his life in an unusual and disturbing way, and may have led to his death as well as the exploitation of many innocents.
He was assisted in that exploitation by a host of notables from all over our long suffering planet. Their numbers are legion. They include heroes of all political persuasions, united in depravity.
What was it that made him King of the Pimps? The times I think. Plutocrats believe that money buys anything and anyone. Perhaps he believed he was a plutocrat along with his many friends. But he misjudged his place. Subject to the same desires, his usefulness ended as he indulged them himself without including his customers in indulgence, and so became vulnerable individually, unable to implicate his clients in the same misdeeds he was caught in. Also, perhaps, his accusers didn't fear him as much as they feared those he enabled.
We're in the Age of the Pimp because the very wealthy need pimps to serve them. They're not interested in people of substance or worth. They have all they need and more. What they want isn't what they have already.
They want what they don't have, which is innocence. They lost it long ago. They understand they can no longer possess it, so they seek to corrupt those who do. They want to take the innocence of others. In that way, they assure that their corruption extends to us all. We become a part of it.
