Re: Well...after watching the 60 Minutes interview I now find myself tasting some shoe leather...
Reg
location: back to the wilderness
listening to: static
registered: 1999.11.22
posts: 6470
[view all posts]
[view all posts]
Yes, I think Mr. Penn was attempting to illuminate the drug problem by
providing a look at a side we rarely see. He did fail, as he said, and
one of the issues with him doing this was specifically that it was HIM
doing this.
In our culture we have a hard time getting past the idea he is a
celebrity and so we feel this somehow disallows him from being able to be
the one to write such an article. He probably should have known that the
fact that it was SEAN PENN writing the article would draw more attention
than the content or the thought process behind doing it.
In terms of Sean now being a target of the cartel...well...it was not
his
fault this happened. It never would have happened had El Chapo not wanted
it to happen and he wanted it to happen not to meet Penn (who he
supposedly knew nothing about) but because he wanted to meet Kate del
Castillo whom he had corresponded with.
Had some other journalist landed the interview I don't think there
would
have been an uproar over the interview happening. We only have the uproar
because people use it to comment on Penn.
They understand celebrity and feel comfortable providing an opinion
on
what Penn did but they don't understand the "drug war" and so they say
nothing about that.
El Chapo himself laid it out...he does not matter because when he is
gone
there will just be another guy that steps right in to replace him. There
would be no El Chapos if we did not have the demand for the product that
exists. You can arrest or kill an El Chapo, he is just a man, but the
drug war will just go on and on and on because the demand still exists.
The one thing that struck me watching El Chapo is he was just a
chubby
little soft spoken man in a bad shirt. He did not have horns and fangs
and look like the devil. I thought, that's the guy huh...that fat little
putz runs a massive violent drug empire. Hard to imagine a bunch of
heavily armed trained killers and nut jobs take orders from him...but
that was our monster and I thought Jon Lovitz will be perfect to play him
in the movie, which you know is on the way.
–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
Reg
(view)
Yes, I think Mr. Penn was attempting to illuminate the drug problem by
providing a look at a side we rarely see. He did fail, as he said, and
one of the issues with him doing this was specifically that it was HIM
doing this.
In our culture we have a hard time getting past the idea he is a
celebrity and so we feel this somehow disallows him from being able to be
the one to write such an article. He probably should have known that the
fact that it was SEAN PENN writing the article would draw more attention
than the content or the thought process behind doing it.
In terms of Sean now being a target of the cartel...well...it was not
his
fault this happened. It never would have happened had El Chapo not wanted
it to happen and he wanted it to happen not to meet Penn (who he
supposedly knew nothing about) but because he wanted to meet Kate del
Castillo whom he had corresponded with.
Had some other journalist landed the interview I don't think there
would
have been an uproar over the interview happening. We only have the uproar
because people use it to comment on Penn.
They understand celebrity and feel comfortable providing an opinion
on
what Penn did but they don't understand the "drug war" and so they say
nothing about that.
El Chapo himself laid it out...he does not matter because when he is
gone
there will just be another guy that steps right in to replace him. There
would be no El Chapos if we did not have the demand for the product that
exists. You can arrest or kill an El Chapo, he is just a man, but the
drug war will just go on and on and on because the demand still exists.
The one thing that struck me watching El Chapo is he was just a
chubby
little soft spoken man in a bad shirt. He did not have horns and fangs
and look like the devil. I thought, that's the guy huh...that fat little
putz runs a massive violent drug empire. Hard to imagine a bunch of
heavily armed trained killers and nut jobs take orders from him...but
that was our monster and I thought Jon Lovitz will be perfect to play him
in the movie, which you know is on the way.
–--
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
