Charlie Sheen and the Great American Hypocrisy

Don't call this jumping on the bandwagon because this isn't praise piece. In the past month or so,Charlie Sheen has gone from a blip on the radar, the star of the uber-successful show that nobody actually admits to watching, Two and Half Men, to a cult hero.  Whether it be tongue in cheek, having fun, or totally for real,people have lined up to worship at the altar of Sheen.

I....unironically...am one of them.

It began simply enough.  A weekend long bender with enough cocaine to make George Jung blush, and more porn stars than a Vegas condo community.  Sheen, in his unmasked,gold toothed glory, was smoking pure cocaine from a bong and having sex with jail bit porn star Bree Olson.  The part eventually ended though, one $30,000 check and overdose scare later, and Sheen supposedly went off the radar to clean up his act.

Wrong.  Instead of playing the media game, Sheen instead responded with a whacked out, random, downright nerdy tirade proclaiming his dominance and shitting on Three and a Half Men creator Chuck Lorre.  A star, and a million catchphrases, were born.

At first people were worried that he was becoming unhinged, but it has since come to seem that Charlie was playing everyone.  Sure, the intial tirade might have been drug induced, but once he came down, he probably listened back and said, "I have a gold mine here", and has since taken it and ran with it.

And yet most of America, the supposed "moral" people, want to bash him.  Because their pseudo Chrstian lifestyles are so much better...since they preach wholesomness and carry on affairs...have racist opinions...beat their wives...whatever.  Whatever it is, everyone has something they wanna hide. But Sheen said fuck it, let me turn myself up to 11 and fuck with people.  And people cannot handle it, because in this day and age, the truth is unacceptable.  Everyone has to tow the line.

Thats why I support Charlie Sheen.  Not only because his pompous, bombastic attitude (act or not) is hilarious...but because he is toying with what people are scared to admit, and it makes the world uncomfortable.  And anything that disrupts the stagnant, sterile status quo....I'm all for it.

SHEEN 2012.
I'm out.