A moment of silence please.
It is my sad duty to inform you that Arnold Schwarzenegger is dead.
OK, he's not ACTUALLY dead,
he's just dead to me.
Conan the Destroyer has become Conan the Flaccid Slab of Stupidity.
The Terminator, the once proud robotic badass has relegated himself to the anals (no misspelling there..) of history as a pathetic sack of poo.
Am I being too harsh? No.
Unfair? No.
Am I pissed? Not quite
Am I disgusted? Hell-to-the-yes!
Perhaps the fault is mine.
Perhaps I demand too much from my childhood hero..?
No.
He just sucks.
The fall has been a gradual one - and so, I thought the landing would be softer.
Let's face it. His tenure as governor of California has been a complete and utter failure. With every new tax, with every new growth of state government, with every failure to reign in unions, he became more and more ineffectual. With every knob-schlobbing of the eco-moron movement he became more and more of a joke.... but today he turned from an object of pitiable disappointment to an entity of purest scorn and derision...
You must be saying to yourself, 'self, this must be about Schwarzenegger giving Obama an -A- grade for his job as president thus far.'.....and you would be wrong! (cue dramatic music) well, at least partially.
It's not the -A- that bothers me so much. For the above-listed reasons, Schwarzenegger has already proven himself to be useless. He, like Obama, are more celebrity than public servant - both large on style, little on substance.
No,
its not the grade.
Its the category.
Effort.
EFFORT!!!
Who the #*@% cares about effort!
That's like giving Nero props for playing a good fiddle while Rome burned.
Schwarzenegger, in one brief foray into stupidity has exemplified one of the greatest failings of our time. That effort is more important than results.
It is not.
Consider -
teachers are encouraged not to grade papers using red pen, for fear it may be too harsh and hurt the child's feelings
No more dodge ball
Awards ceremonies where everybody wins something
Teams vilified for winning by too much and coaches fired for the offense
Grades abandoned as too harsh
I could go on, but it I have already vomited a little in my mouth already..
Winning is no longer the desired goal.
Success is a relative term.
Excellence has been replaced with impotence.
Schwarzenegger is pathetic for what he has become.
The voice of the castrato.
Because he allowed it to be so and he was once something better, something greater.
It matters not I suppose that president Obama has made a bad economy terrible
or that he shows nothing but disdain for our country when speaking overseas
or that he is more interested in attacking G.W. Bush than defeating terrorists
or that his strident march to socialism spits in the face of our constitution
No.
What really matters is that president Obama is really trying hard - and to Arnold and the rest of the great American castrato, that is all that really matters
Apparently, its not a tumor..
I guess all of those steroids really did shrink his sack.
Bastard.
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I am willfully alone and not sleepy on Christmas Eve and it's time to write. First a comment.
ReplyDeleteMy take is that there never was an Arnold Schwarzenegger. Or there were a succession of them. To be born in Austria right after the war and to become a citizen of the world and the most celebrated body builder is an accomplishment -- so huge that he left a wake of millionaire publishers behind him.
Then he became a someone else, even bigger: a movie star to rival and even surpass the likes of Eastwood. For a third act, he achieved arguably the highest elected office he can legally obtain in the most powerful nation in the world. A guy like that doesn't exist (again and again) because of some deep-rooted core. He adapts. He's the Adaptanator, and he's adapting again within a very left wing family and his various "green" ventures. Not to denigrate his accomplishments...I think they are beyond comparison.
Then there are the people who are more or less the same from the day they are born until they die. Your lord and savior is one. Along with Jesus, a bloke like me would add Buddha, Bach, Kafka, Borges, and others, most of them likely unheard of. These people grow and learn but are not big adapters. They have patience, but not inhuman patience. Lacking the gifts of Edison, they don't seek to change or better the world in any mechanical way and they don't often seek conflict though it finds them (tuberculosis assisted Kafka in evading the Nazis, a blessing his sister had not the fortune to acquire.)
Our culture has increasingly overlooked these people and their quieter gifts. Cameras and microphones have made us lop-sided, lenses focused on only one kind of "celebrity" male but still needing the other. We're not going to get a quiet church organist from a movie star or a saint from a modern sports gladiator. We won't even get a Hemingway from Cameron, yet we still want both. And so we are deprived, and we are needy.
Long comment, moody, got into it. Cheers and Merry Christmas, my friend!