"America is an invented place, artificial by some historical measures. But Americans were long viewed by the rest of the world as unusually earnest and genuine. Unshackled by class, social status and ancestry, Americans were free to be themselves — authentic. We have always prided ourselves on that. The American story is that we are self-made and thus uniquely able to be true to ourselves. It’s a paradox though: invention vs. authenticity."
Story
Exactly. I fear that we are losing our ability to value the authentic. Anything that is real is frightening.
Say what you like about Michael Richards. At least he's real, unlike you. (And I'm guessing he never shoved a banana up someone's ass or stuffed anyone into an oven. But because he is more startling than anything you see on The Lie Machine, he is to be vilified. The man's crime was to say something that he had a desire to say at the time. And the very fabric of your shrink-wrapped universe is unraveling. Oh no...)
Michael Richards did more socially valuable pants-shitting in two minutes than EVERYTHING delivered on the TV in the past five years. And that's why the people on TV are "outraged."
TV Person:
"9-11 an inside job? Don't care. I might lose my show."
"Babies with eyestalks? Not my problem. I'm covering useless and entry-level political information."
"Domestic dictatorship where my daughter can be lifted off the street and finger-fucked by government trolls in the name of the War on the PanBadness Brigade? What color will my new car be?"
TV is not real. TV sucks. Michael Richards is not on TV. He gets to be real.
And this makes you jealous.
And that's no surprise, because you suck. You are beholden to a shitty medium.
If you operate on TV, you don't even have the authority to comment on anything that occurs on a wooden stage. So please shut up. Go back to your non-world and pretend that you're relevant.
