A significant portion of the population of a number of countries within the Western World are of the sentiment that once an individual makes choices that serve to make him or her a ‘public figure’ then so too should every aspect of that individual’s life become the domain of the general public. Such is a sentiment that has afflicted the lives of individuals from many walks of life, including actors, athletes, politicians, chefs and even individuals caught up within tragedy or other news-worthy events. Is this to be considered acceptable?

What is right and what is wrong? One would typically head towards one’s nearest Bible, Koran, Torah or other religious script in one’s quest to shed light upon the matter - were one devout, that is. It is often said that the uniting of church and state is a necessary evil - one which is inescapable - but is it truly so?

What of the legal system? In many countries one finds that the church and the rote of values that it represents filters into the deepest recesses of what society considers to be socially acceptable or not. In the name of scriptures written by hands long forgotten millions have perished and many more have suffered, divine judgement passed by the none-too-divine.

Liberals, conservatives, communists, socialists, capitalists, nationalists, national socialists… and many more, all are representative of unique standpoints upon the political spectrum. We have thus-far crudely attempted to box them into the spaces of ‘left’ and ‘right’, the roots of which stretch as far back as the political structures following the French revolution, but for a long time now it has seemed that this simplistic categorization just no longer holds within this age of slow but sure political progress.