Hooray exposure! Of course, the other side of this is that with too much publicity, people get used to it being right out in the open, and it gets almost accepted as How Things Work. Think of Richard Hatch on the first Surivivor: a manipulating, predacious and self-aggrandizing jerk who won by being exactly that - PROUDLY. My first thought when I heard he'd won was - "It's finally happened. They've gone right out and admitted on global TV what everybody knew but didn't want to really credit: that Nice Guys Lose and @$$#oles win."
Sometimes I think that the schadenfreude of watching one of these Pigs On The Wing fall into a justly deserved sausage machine is the way dramatic depictions of Classic Tragedy (as in fall of a Great Figure) got popular...
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Date: 2005-09-11 08:35 am (UTC)Of course, the other side of this is that with too much publicity, people get used to it being right out in the open, and it gets almost accepted as How Things Work.
Think of Richard Hatch on the first Surivivor: a manipulating, predacious and self-aggrandizing jerk who won by being exactly that - PROUDLY. My first thought when I heard he'd won was - "It's finally happened. They've gone right out and admitted on global TV what everybody knew but didn't want to really credit: that Nice Guys Lose and @$$#oles win."
Sometimes I think that the schadenfreude of watching one of these Pigs On The Wing fall into a justly deserved sausage machine is the way dramatic depictions of Classic Tragedy (as in fall of a Great Figure) got popular...
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