Okay, so now that you've learned that I used to ghost write for Ann Coulter, let me give my theory of why I would have written nonsense such as that below.

I was 27 and very naive. The naivety I sported really had nothing to do with age, though, it was due to a lack of certain life experiences. This same variety of naivety can exist with some people well into old age, or they can even lose it and then regain it later.

At that time, what my life experience consisted of was saying, "I want to do 'X.' In school they said if I focus and apply myself, there's nothing in the world I can't do. So by golly, look out world! Here I come!" And at the time of that writing that elementary school idealism was working. I had gotten my own radio show and only expected bigger things to come, and there were no indicators I should have expected anything less. Experience had only taught me that what Rush Limbaugh said was true: you just gotta work hard and then the world is your oyster! People only live the hard luck life because they're unmotivated idiots who don't try!

As I say, others can suffer this same delusion right into old age, if they never get a taste of any other reality. Or some people get knocked down and figure out how tentative things really are. Then when things turn in their favor again they instantly forget they were ever on the downhill slide and presume they're on top again because they're so industrious and great. But actually the fact is reality is very, very fluid. Or as someone I knew once said, "They lie to you in school. They tell you you can be anything you want, but you can't. In reality you're lucky you don't wind up living under a bridge and crapping in a KFC bucket."

So, my conservative friends, don't wait to learn the lessons I did the hard way. Shed your naivety now!

1 Comments:

 robcasting said...

You have to remember I have walked alot of the same road as you and to your last bolg I say...Huckabee in 08!!

1:04 AM, November 28, 2007  

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