Gutfeld: Be Scary
Little ones are keeping me up tonight, and I'm glad because it gave me a chance to read this Greg Gutfeld column in the AmSpec, which ends thusly:
We need to be willing to face the mobs in the street and the mobs online. We need to punch a coward in the face when it's called for, and do so in front of his friends. We need to be the scary ones, for once.Gutfeld's not only funny, he's smart.Myself? I'm ready to play the fool. I've had lots of practice over the years -- just ask my friends. The U.S., in fact, as a nation, needs to start acting like fools. We need to be ridiculous. We need to be scary. We need to keep our enemies up at night and make them squirm for a change. When we hear those two competing voices in our heads, we need to listen to the one that dares us to look stupid. Because it's better than looking dead.
Machiavelli said that it is better to be feared than loved. The postmodern version of that is that it's better to feared than cool.