My Kind of Gentleman
I just got done with one of the most important parts of my Annual Yuletide festivities, the viewing of Allister Sim’s “Scrooge.” If you haven’t ever seen it
or even if you haven’t seen it recently you need to go watch it now. Itwill break your heart. It will change your life.
I am going to assume that most of you know the story of Dickens’ “Christmas Carol” even if none of you has actually read it. As we all know it is a heart warming story about a wise and brave man named Ebenezer Scrooge. A man who, despite constant social pressure to conform and find validation in the eyes of others by buying them off, manages to daily live a disciplined life focused on his goals and purposes. Those specific goals and purposes being the pursuit of wealth and a spartan lifestyle that protects his wealth. This despite constant pressure to conform to everyone’s illogical, emotional pleas, social isolation, and emotional blackmail, Ebenezer holds on to his beliefs.
The Dargasson! That is the name of the tune stuck in my head! I couldn’t think or write or nothing! But now I have it. You should go look that up. Good song.
Anyways I love Scrooge. Dang, I love that man! He is so mean and miserly that even the blind and their dogs run from his shadow! He throws his shoulder into the twelve year old girl asking for a penny top knock her out of the way! The man would rather get frostbite than spend the cash to warm himself! He won’t even spend a halfpenny for bread when he can go hungry and have a tiny fraction more money! That is discipline. Or mental illness. But most discipline looks a little crazy to me anyways. Respectable and praiseworthy, but still kinda nuts.
The thing I loves the most about my boy Ebeneezer is that the man is who he is. He makes no qualms about anything he does. He knows that people will die if he does not donate money to charity but he does not want to and does not care about them dying. And since he already has been forced through taxation to fund some terrible public provision for the poor he throws that forced support into the faces of those who want him to do more. Scrooge is about money and everyone knows it.
And that is refreshing in a world where people are constantly doing things with ulterior motives. Half of the people I know who are “nice” are nice just to get ahead in life or get more cash. I mean just look at all of the “big hearted” liberals out there! Every last one of them in Congress who want to shove socialized health care down our throats care only about getting power and money through control of a sector of the national economy. If they gave a rip about people’s health they’d be doctors or researchers not politicians! Politicians don’t get nobody healthy! But they do care about making people think they care about other people.
Now people may say “How like a Republican to like the money grubbing Scrooge!” Well fine. Scrooge probably would have been a Republican, but even so. I’d rather have an honest miser who’ll sell you down the river and you know it than a manipulative people pleaser who’ll sell you down the river and lie about it into the night any day.
Merry Christmas that.
-Bob
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