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...laugh at the unfamiliar, it’s also not nice to laugh at the ignorant. And, now that I know better, I’ve realized that Canadians know very little about America. Our knowledge is generally confined to a caricature of an obese, gun-toting, Jerry-Springer-bitch-slapping tornado victim...
...bray along these lines for a minute, going on about the cultural downside of American overprivilege (whining about dodge ball - dodge ball! - being of a piece somehow with Jerry Springer, Columbine, Jennifer and Puffy, Eminem and other manifestations of what might be called the opulence of democratized decline...
...moment. Each argument (police brutality, abortion choice and so on) instantly deploys its predictable pros and cons. I know all your arguments, you know all my arguments. If a man's presidential ambition is to see America continue as an afternoon talk show, a sort of brawling Jerry Springer spectacle from sea to sea, then by all means seize each emotional agitation as it flies through the air and do a segment on it. We live in an age of gladiatorial jaw-jaw, of moral polarization as entertainment...
Along the way, Dirt suffers through numerous mishaps, mostly situations set up solely for the purposed of forcing an easy laugh; he is caught in a molar-shaped hot air balloon, seduced by a trailer trash temptress played by Jaime Pressly (Tomcats, Jerry Springer: Ringmaster) at a carnival, swung like a doll in the jaws of an enormous crocodile and finds himself on the losing end of multiple encounters with human excrement...
...Coward once observed that television wasn't something to watch - it was something to be on. This take partly explains this current obsession that nonentities can rise above their station in life if only they can be on a TV show, be it "Jerry Springer" or "Divorce Court." The current popular location for self-exposure is "Survivor." Unlike many of the literati, I find certain saving graces with the program. For one thing, the very word "Survivor" is now less likely to conjure up the image of a mediocre '80s band providing music for mediocre Sylvester Stallone movies...