Posted on 12/03/2010 7:06:27 PM PST by Josh Painter
My admiration for the former governor notwithstanding, for over a decade now my reality show viewing has never left the delightfully disturbing and fascinating world of true crime prison breaks, forensic detectives, deadly women and wicked attractions. But I’ve come to like and admire the Palin family because seeing who they are and what they stand for celebrated in the current era of popular culture is such a rare thing.
Because I’m simplistic I tend to break the world down into three simple categories:
Category one is made up of those who keep the world safe: our military, police, firefighters. Those men and women who risk their own lives to protect the rest of us from the bad guys. Without them we have nothing.
Category two is made up of those who keep the world turning. These are our doctors and nurses and entrepreneurs and those who do the hard work of keeping us fed, our cars on the road, the toilets flushing and the air conditioner running. They don’t complain, they don’t whine, they have no sense of entitlement. And without them we have suffering.
Category three is the rest of us, those privileged to enjoy the luxury of being website editors, film critics, writers, journalists, professors and the like. Remove these people from the planet (and I include myself among them) and the world stays safe and keeps right on turning. We’d miss them, but do we really need them?
Like I said, simplistic. But if you think about it, our pop culture gatekeepers spend way too much time celebrating category three and just as much time ridiculing and/or marginalizing the everyday Americans who make up category two.
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Texans have a great connection with Tennessee, and thank God for their men that came to die as Texans.
Great post! Uncle Ted is always good to hear and is rarely wrong.
Ted should have a cabinet position in Sarah Palin’s presidency. Re-elect Palin 2016.
That was great.
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