Marked by lovers and styles of clothes.
Things that you've held high
And told yourself were true,
Lost or changin'
As the days comes down to you.
Joni Mitchell, It all Comes Down to You
One of the great philosophers and media critics of our time, R. C. Price, believes, “Everything that I know, that is true, I learned from watching wrestling on TV."
Modern wrestling, as defined by Vince McMahon, is an extension of the Greek tragedies augmented with elbow drops and flying dropped kicks off the top rope. Nowhere is this essential and ancient form of communication more obvious than in today's world of political discourse.
“Just like Hitler” is political speech for they are Republican. In the squared circle, where men get sweaty and pin each other in the center of the ring… Only to talk about it later, use the phrase “He has no right to call himself the Heavyweight Champion of the World. You saw what he did, he cheated; he used a foreign object when the ref wasn't looking…”
When wrestlers are more coherent and better spoken than politicians, the government has fallen to levels.
P.J. Crowley sounds more like the assistant manager at the Ramada Inn asking The Rolling Stones to quit throwing the dead hookers into the swimming pool, "Because it's scaring the other guests."
Back in the day, political discourse was a debate. Logic rule the day, rhetoric was sizzle to make the steak all that much better.
Around the time of Aristotle, wrestling was a noble profession, a chance to get all oiled up and grapple. The outcome was determined by skill and will.
Today the WWE, by their own admission, creates monsters. Extreme characters, incapable of compromising and willing to do or say anything. They exist to frighten or protect their legions of polarized fans. The spectacle and production exists to extend the performance beyond surreal.
Is that any different from producing 30 minute films to introduce candidates to their own party?
Was candidate Barack Obama treated any differently than Hulk Hogan during the zenith of Hulk-o-mania?
Are you ready for the main event? Let's get ready to RRRRUMBLE!!!!!
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