Ben Stien's Latest Column
I have never "darkened the door" (to use the antiquated parlance) of E! online before as I find celebrity worship distasteful and that is essentially all they're about. Ironic that they would run a column that essentially questions the validity of their existence.
How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World?
A sample of the article:
Part of why I am out here doing this is to serve as a role model to my future children and to my nephews so that they better understand the responsibilies we have as the more fortunate to help those in need. Its nice to see this viewpoint validated by others.
A tip 'o the hat to my grandmother (Memaw) who forwarded me this link. And to think, most people's grandparents just forward last year's urban legend emails! ;)
Stay tuned...I'm working on my Bagram to Jalalabad convoy journal entry! Coming soon.
How Can Someone Who Lives in Insane Luxury Be a Star in Today's World?
A sample of the article:
How can a man or woman who makes an eight-figure wage and lives in insane luxury really be a star in today's world, if by a "star" we mean someone bright and powerful and attractive as a role model?
Real stars are not riding around in the backs of limousines or in Porsches or getting trained in yoga or Pilates and eating only raw fruit while they have Vietnamese girls do their nails. They can be interesting, nice people, but they are not heroes to me any longer.
A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit, Iraq.
Part of why I am out here doing this is to serve as a role model to my future children and to my nephews so that they better understand the responsibilies we have as the more fortunate to help those in need. Its nice to see this viewpoint validated by others.
A tip 'o the hat to my grandmother (Memaw) who forwarded me this link. And to think, most people's grandparents just forward last year's urban legend emails! ;)
Stay tuned...I'm working on my Bagram to Jalalabad convoy journal entry! Coming soon.
4 Comments:
You know something's up when irony and self-doubt become part of the mainstream culture. It's a pity so few people have your level of follow-through - to do more than just question, but to answer those questions.
I wonder if people will just get inurred to irony and accept it, or if they'll start doing something about it. We'll see. Ben Stein's likely to be around either way.
Excellent article. It so impressed me that wrote to Ben Stein hisveryownself & told him how awesome the column was, and that I'd gotten to it via your blog.
Your Memaw is cool. :-)
By the way, I googled for a map of Afghanistan so I could know where Jalalabad is, and there's a great one here.
Fortunate Son, I am paying much closer attention & learning quite a lot about what's going on over there, thanks to you!
Forget about your rag writing. I was channel surfing and caught your pitiful spot on VH1. Gawwd!
Do you really need the money?
Mr. Wipple Job is open.
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