Firmage EdThe Adventures of Plasticman, cont’d
I introduced my dear friend, Plasticman, in one of my recent descents into the Inferno. Plasticman lives in what once was the Hotel Utah. It now houses Plasticman and his many wives. Each office… as it may appear to the masses on the outside looking in…actually houses one wife. Plasicman has many demands on his time.
Plasticman gave a much-hyped speech in Texas recently. Like Kennedy before him, he was walking into the lion’s den……but wait. Each person there was either on Plasticman’s salary or in other ways served Plasticman.
Plasticman said:”Americans do not respect believers of convenience. Americans tire of those who would jettison their beliefs, even to gain the whole world.” Amen. We all should live by this American credo. We all know who was offered the whole world and who it was that made the offer. True enough.
There is a make-believe politician of means, meaning money, who served as governor of a northeastern state. He took positions clearly to the left of Senator Ted Kennedy: abortion, race, sex, gender, peace, taxation, medical coverage, immigrants. This man believes in the founding mothers and fathers, and their secular religion, where god needn’t intrude and rarely does.
Imagine with me the enormous pain of these two opposites. Like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Trying to get it all together. For this pain alone, we need to give this genius, this man among men, this wealthy Bruce Wayne look-alike, both a Nobel Peace Prize in cybernetics and a Pulitzer for fiction and, most important of all (next to the presidency for life……like some religous folks we all know), Oscar, or two or ten of them.
Stay tuned for the adventures of Plasticman.
