I drifted to sleep for a while, watching Ricky Gervais mocking fat people with not even an iota of irony. Or humour. Not sure what woke me; must have been his poor arguments in favour of atheism; Im definitely not comfortable having him as a spokesperson for the movement, if there is one. Couldnt one of the hundreds of rational, well-spoken, actually personable people out there take that spot? I vote Eddie Izzard. Failing that, Id take Keira Knightley, Julianne Moore, Diane Keaton, Daniel Radcliffe, Seth Macfarlane -- all of whom would make better spokesperson for atheism than Ricky Gervais, whose prime argument against theism is the Noahs Ark story and how implausible it is ergo god couldnt exist. Pffffft. He is still funny, but he also serves as a living, evolving testament to the axiom that success turns people into they were always meant to be, with a vengeance; if you were always meant to be a decent guy who gets along with most people and helps people, you turn into George Clooney. If you were always meant to be a jerk who stiffs waiters, treats film crews like peasants and basically thinks the world is there to serve you, you turn into… every diva that ever lived. And Ricky Gervais appears to be trying to decide who he is supposed to be -- the nice guy made nicer still, or the ordinary schmuck made schmuck extraordinaire. Time will tell. The interesting thing about living in LA and going to AA there was watching this stuff happen close up. Now Im further away… and I can still guess whats happening, because I watched it for so long, I know the dance by heart. What a weird and surreal existence. it is truly at a very distant remove from the daily lives of all other sorts. And for that, those others should be very grateful. Theyre not, of course, because the grass is always greener, yadda yadda. But boy, should they ever.
Posted on: Sun, 07 Sep 2014 05:50:00 +0000
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