Never since the spectacle of Caligula’s orgy of immorality and the subsequent breakdown of all that was the Roman Empire- has there ever been a clearer sign of civilization’s impending demise--- we’ve finally witnessed the breaching of the wall that kept the invaders of our social legitimacy from engulfing us in economic and social moral idiocy.
We have come to the point where, as billion dollar construction projects in Las Vegas go dark- unemployment lines swell, and hundreds of thousands of families are being torn apart and cast out of their homes- we, as a global society have rewarded clowns enough to drop $35 Million to vacation in space….
Not that Canadians have ever been the torchbearers for… well, anything--- in fact, the opposite is true- we’ve always considered our somewhat frost-bit neighbors to the North to be somewhat reserved (mind-numbing cold will do that…?) but as a people, still able to maintain a conscionable quantity of level headed unpretentiousness.
And that’s the point—if the world has evolved to where a moderately sane people (Canucks) have as their most newsworthy personality (well, at least this week), a genius that has built a fortune making people laugh—and rewarded him with enough leisure pocket change to afford this stunt—it is simply the tip of the iceberg (be it melting or not) --- merely an anecdote or harbinger of 2012ishness…. who wil ever know for sure- except for 22nd century history teachers that is….
As much as I enjoy the fruitiness of his labors, I do have a warning for Guy, and perhaps the world--.
Now that the world’s #1 Clown has broken the boundary and entered the Universe-at-large- I see ominous warnings of what may get his scent and follow him back—TO US!!
(except of course, the threat to our souls, and morals of our young from the Zombie Strippers from Outer Space!)
okay, okay-- so I made up the Outer Space part-- but it can't be much of leap if you'll swallow the Guy=Caligula theory....
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