Different Circumstances Call For Different Tactics.
I am about to give two different tactical "directions" to people (well, abstractly, neither reads this blog.) I think the circumstances are so different, and the stakes are so much more dissimilar that going in opposite directions is really the only way to go.
(Hint. It's the political one that matters. The other one is pure bullshit, actually. But I wanted a contrast, for the sake of the essay.)
First case concerns a contestant on "Big Brother." Yes, I the guy who for the past few years have been ranting against the scourge of "reality TV" got sucked back into that crap, this season. Hey. I don't even consider it reality tv. It's a contest. It's more like watching a sport than the lurid thrill of watching ugly (personality-wise) people being themselves. Anyway, this season, this week, the 'drama' concerned one contestant who seemed (and things change hour by hour) to run out of his luck. Now he is gay, not that that matters. But he is very whiny, and in the depths of his misery of being (so he thinks) likely to be sent home, he is getting even more whiny and pissy and basically acting like a child. Not the way to go, sport. Firstly, there are things going on in the background that might save his whiny ass for one more week. But more's the point. If he is really on his way out the door, this is his last time to make himself look good to the nationwide TV Audience. Go out like a champ. Go out like a person that other people would instantly respect. Don't go out like a frigging cry baby.
And that gets us to the political matter. Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceded to her tea bagger challenger. Now should she do as I say the Big Brother contestant should do? Hell no! I don't think she should go out like a cry baby, but I think she should speak truth to idiots. I think she should indict the Tea Bagger Movement, and the callous, cowardly GOP Leadership for pandering at all to those miscreants. I think she should go all prophet on them and remind them that they might get some ill gotten undeserved gains as a party come Nov., but that is more on account of anxiety over the economy, not the Party. The Party is self destructing. The Party is the dog that is being wagged by the tail. The Party, if it continues drifting hard right is going to fall off the sharp edge of the ends of the earth. Not that the earth is flat, but politically speaking? Ya It very well could be. The GOP needs to reinvent itself as a party of sane, rational adults, if it is to survive the next couple decades.
NOT that I really want that to happen. But It would be good entertainment to see Sen. Murkowski sing that song. It will be more entertaining to me, than most summer TV (now that the good summer shows are mostly done.)
(Hint. It's the political one that matters. The other one is pure bullshit, actually. But I wanted a contrast, for the sake of the essay.)
First case concerns a contestant on "Big Brother." Yes, I the guy who for the past few years have been ranting against the scourge of "reality TV" got sucked back into that crap, this season. Hey. I don't even consider it reality tv. It's a contest. It's more like watching a sport than the lurid thrill of watching ugly (personality-wise) people being themselves. Anyway, this season, this week, the 'drama' concerned one contestant who seemed (and things change hour by hour) to run out of his luck. Now he is gay, not that that matters. But he is very whiny, and in the depths of his misery of being (so he thinks) likely to be sent home, he is getting even more whiny and pissy and basically acting like a child. Not the way to go, sport. Firstly, there are things going on in the background that might save his whiny ass for one more week. But more's the point. If he is really on his way out the door, this is his last time to make himself look good to the nationwide TV Audience. Go out like a champ. Go out like a person that other people would instantly respect. Don't go out like a frigging cry baby.
And that gets us to the political matter. Sen. Lisa Murkowski conceded to her tea bagger challenger. Now should she do as I say the Big Brother contestant should do? Hell no! I don't think she should go out like a cry baby, but I think she should speak truth to idiots. I think she should indict the Tea Bagger Movement, and the callous, cowardly GOP Leadership for pandering at all to those miscreants. I think she should go all prophet on them and remind them that they might get some ill gotten undeserved gains as a party come Nov., but that is more on account of anxiety over the economy, not the Party. The Party is self destructing. The Party is the dog that is being wagged by the tail. The Party, if it continues drifting hard right is going to fall off the sharp edge of the ends of the earth. Not that the earth is flat, but politically speaking? Ya It very well could be. The GOP needs to reinvent itself as a party of sane, rational adults, if it is to survive the next couple decades.
NOT that I really want that to happen. But It would be good entertainment to see Sen. Murkowski sing that song. It will be more entertaining to me, than most summer TV (now that the good summer shows are mostly done.)
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