“Hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue.” The aforementioned quote was notably articulated by revered French writer, François de La Rochefoucauld, some 300 years ago.
Like fine wine, the expression has aged with time and has become part of our existential fabric, and like a contemporary currency which is traded every so often, it has become an immutable fact of our present-day reality.
In Guyana, it’s a ‘national pastime’ and in the local realm of sport, it has found a worthy home given its esteemed tenants, occupants, and landlords. To believe or think otherwise, is to live the actuality of an outlier.