Barry Bonds, an US baseball player, is in the news for allegedly lying to a grand jury. The comments from readers are more interesting than the article:
- Most of these commenters dislike Bonds because he is arrogant.
- Most of these same commenters are willing to judge him guilty a priori of the trial.
My interest in this is whether Bonds has the balls enough to carry through and risk serving the sentence (like Martha Stewart), or whether he is a poser and will eventually break in plea bargain of sorts (like Don Imus getting fired).
The only thing this trial will really tell us what kind of man Barry Bonds really is. My money is that he will tell the grand jury to fuck off and risk serving 30 months at the country club. If he is convicted, and acts as he always does, he will be lauded as a hero for standing firm to his principles and telling the US government to fuck off. If he doesn't, he will be savaged as a weakling and completely finished in the public eye.
Guess which action is more attractive to women...
What kind of man are you? What would do you think you would do?
On a side note, US society is evolving socially such that jail time is no longer the social stigma it once was. Anyone who is anyone these days seems bound to run afoul of some point of law, merely by having an opinion of their own and the balls enough to tell people to piss off when it isn't any of their business. Does the notion of this kind of incarceration remind anyone here of any other well-known social systems? Does me.
What?
Barry Bonds has principles? Guess you learn something every day. :) That said, I don't follow sports and don't care about his attitude. Many journalists however like to build people up then tear them down. Although, chances are he cheated, but who knows? I don't follow what you're saying in the last bit. People are being jailed for their opinions? Where?
I'm on the low-information diet so I don't really follow current events. Sorry if I've missed something.
Missing out
I thought I proudly gave up TV in 1978.
Actually, I arrogantly gave up
TV in 1978.
Big difference.
As a result, I became a man in his early
40s with no cultural references in common
with the women who were initially attracted
to me, and who I was attracted to.
I believe pop culture taps very deep
evolutionary wiring in many people,
especially in women. While I don't
personally pay too much attention to
pop culture even now, I no longer
begrudge any woman's fascination with it.
You're a young man. Consider choosing
a few elements of popular culture to
follow, perhaps one sports team, a couple
of supermodels, a TV show or 2 and see
a movie once a month. It takes surprisingly
little time, and it will vastly increase
your social flexibility with both men
and women.
Advice
Mr. Clare, thanks for the advice. I work in a place (Forever 21 & another similar store) that has many young attractive women. Even the music was strange to me when I started working there. Guess you're right though, this is what many respond to. I'll work on expanding my horizons.
Harold