There are many things that have worn so thin that when I see them I only grow
ever more annoyed that people swoon over it. What I have in mind is the antics of miscreants like Britney Spears. This complete screwup typifies what I mean. If she were just an ordinary person she would be either in a detention center or a mental ward, instead she gets away with everything with no more than a trifle of inconvenience, then the public oohs and ahhs over her “plight” and pass out over the mere glimpse of her as she is whisked away by her body guards, lawyers, and psychiatrists. Then her handlers concoct a story that she is actually bi-polar or has multiple personality disorder in an attempt to drum up sympathy for her …and it works every time. I predict that she will follow this scenario which has become such an old playbook that I am amazed that I am the only one who apparently sees through it.
I submit that she will take a few months out of the limelight only to emerge “a better person” by virtue of her getting religion or finding a deeper meaning of life through some epiphany that she will swear to devote the rest of her life to. And the dopey public will fall for it hook, line, and sinker and make her vastly richer than ever and lavish upon her more attention, books and movies will ensue and she will have completed the circuit of bilking the public…only I have no sympathy for the public either as their gullibility brings them what they deserve.
I now segue over to a related gripe of mine that revolves around the recent hooker scandals with elected officials. Again we deserve these people because so few of us insist on a better quality of leadership. But the ones who will come away smelling like a rose will be the much celebrated hookers. They will each get modeling contracts, acting offers, book and movie deals, go on the lecture circuit and gain more notoriety than they ever dreamed of. This will allow them to go legit and live very nicely and also attain much notoriety with the glitterati and become much celebrated and venerated. And all because they were high priced hookers who were lucky enough to draw high placed politicians as clients.
So I guess the message might be that you too can get rich quick and retire young if you follow this prescription and become a screwup and tramp. The only trick is getting yourself noticed.