some thought about yesterdays news

I take a coffebreak and turn on the telly. Kunskapskanalen(that is the knowledge-channel) shows a program about Pompeii and old rome. the lady that presents it is lovely, she tell all about how the romans used their slaves as inhuman like a piece of furniture but how some of them slaves got to be married to their owner and be set free. Free slaves that got to become husband or wife to the owner. Mary Beard tells explicit how one of the slaves chores was to do sex duty. The rich household had an own bath for those services, the mosaic at the entrance floor showing a man with erect penis and then the pool floor showing more naked personas lets the historic storyteller guess that here was the sex room, where slaves that did not even own their own body got to do things for their master, man or girl or woman an boy? Who knows?

I switch channel and there are reporters eagerly waiting for president Hollande to make a statement about his personal affair, but when he talk he only mention the job situation and how to make France matter in the EU and to help out by making a new job arrangement program, make some changes for France.
Then the head press journalist get to ask a question, and he trips delicately with the words first thanking for the president mentioning them prisoned journalists abroad and hoping freedom for press yada yada, but the question is will the presidents wife be joining him to the Obama meeting in few weeks time?

Oh Irony. No, he is asking about personal affairs. The humanity needs to know is he having an affair or not?!   How about the jobs? Isn't that more important? I am jobless so I wonder about the jobs more than the private matter of a man and woman. The wife in question hospitalized so leave them alone I think quietly. If I were that wife I would not like to see the newspaper of tomorrow throwing images out there for everyone to see about those private matters... not the choice a woman makes when getting married to someone? For better or worse.

In ancient Rome, the tombs of a rich household contained 24pairs in katakomb like square(48persons!) The slaves and master of the household indifferent in death. The freed slaves of a man got to share his grave. In aristocrat England it would be unthinkable to have the lord in same familygrave as the household.
The romans had another kind of lifestyle for sure or is it the same as we have today? Is it just forgotten about? Looking back in time and seeing dramas of the past makes one see the humanity is one of a kind, the same no matter what age, the difference of today is the Big Brother(read 1984 by George Orwell) eye that sees all and can document it to the delight of others. I feel sick of the ever curiousity that explores all over, that want to know all, its sickening, thats my thoughts of the day.