Charlie, Charlie, Charlie! What in the name of all that’s Hollywood are you doing?
Forty five year old Carlos Irwin Estevez, aka Charlie Sheen, seems to be on a meltdown trajectory or he has already melted down and is now bent on becoming a modern equivalent of Dorothy’s nemesis, the Wicked Witch of the West.
Sheen is one of those entertainers in the mold of George Clooney, Sean Penn, Bill Maher, and too many others who cash in with their celebrity by becoming advocates and spokesmen for various causes as they assume the roles of social and political gurus, always guru-ing on the side of leftism, always guru-ing to compensate for their paucity of substance.
Multimillionaires like Clooney, Penn, and Sheen hardly need the money that Maher craves but what they all have in common, is the same thing that motivated the late billionaire Nelson Rockefeller, something money can’t easily buy’recognition, respect and, especially, power and influence.
Charlie’s causes run the gamut from Lee National Denim Day to Aid for AIDS to the Best in Drag Show to the 9/11 Truth Movement, anything to distract him from the vacuousness of his life for which he also substitutes booze, bimbos, and drugs.
He’s a sad but not unique case in his sphere.
Bounced from his lucrative role in ABC’s ‘Two and a Half Men’ not because he went nutty with whores and illicit substances but because he went beyond the pale and criticized the show producer’s Jewishness, Charlie then literally lost it, it being his career.
It may not be PC to say but the lesson for Charlie Sheen and for any and all other celebs who want to continue to enjoy their perks and salaries is to indulge their bizarre world all they wish and can physically sustain but never, ever cross a Jewish exec.
As Charlie discovered, they don’t ever forget or forgive religious slurs.
Charlie’s now-international ‘Charlie Sheen LIVE: My Violent Torpedo of Truth’, aka ‘Charlie Sheen’s: Violent Torpedo of Truth/Defeat Is Not an Option’ tour won’t be a dud even though rumors are afoot that its 10-18 minute sellouts aren’t really sold out and despite Perez The Swisher Hilton’s view that Sheen ‘is NUTS,’ that it will be improvisational, that it ‘sounds strange fun [sic],’ and Charlie may not even show up.
Perez is certainly familiar with strange, so who knows?
Little of the above really matters much for the purposes of this writing.
What’s wrong with Charlie Sheen goes far beyond his or the public’s perceptions of his issues, or the opinions of Perez Hilton. It goes far beyond his multiple marriages and five offspring, none of whom live with him. It goes far beyond his firing from ‘Men,’ the success or failure of his grand tour, his bizarre behavior, his hookers and porn stars, his inane Twittering.
Poor Charlie may have flipped out because of his liberalism, a socio-political philosophy which by its nature is closely associated with the God is dead negativity of Nietzscheism.
He may be more than a tad insane at this point, the consequence of adhering to Friedrich Nietzsche’s nihilism whether or not Sheen has ever heard of that German philospher’s name and teachings, which has been termed, ‘liberalism with teeth.’
Toothed or toothless, Sigmund Freud called Nietzsche the thinker who had the greatest insight into the mind of man, the chief problem with that analysis being that neither Freud nor Nietzsche thought very highly of man’s, or woman’s minds.
Obviously, neither does Charlie Sheen.
Modern American liberalism is theoretically committed to social progressivism which essentially envisions a welfare state which, in turn, involves the surrender of individualism and conscience in everything from abortion rights to gay rights to other moral issues, including multiple marriages’and hookers and porn queens. At the same time, liberalism denies and circumscribes the right and privilege of the majority to disagree.
Neither I nor anyone else can get into Charlie Sheen’s head, even if we wanted to venture into that uncharted territory, but it can’t be discounted that Charlie was following his father’s lead in trading his Catholic heritage for fame and notoriety. He may have taken the same stage surname as his father, who had adopted it in honor of the Catholic archbishop and theologian Fulton J. Sheen, but his Catholicity ended there.
Martin Sheen at least managed to maintain a degree of that heritage. Charlie Sheen abandoned it all and the demons he substituted are now, as Perez Hilton indelicately expressed it, are driving him ‘Nuts.’
There’s a cure available for Charlie and all liberals and it doesn’t necessarily involve their becoming monks. What is a requisite for them is to subjugate their worship of godless liberalism and its inspiration, Nietszche, and to arrive an understanding that humans may technically be animals but that we are thinking animals and most of us neither require nor desire Big Brother governments, causes, or entertainers to guide us to the light.
Since the chances of that happening are nil, best wishes for Charlie and his Violent Torpedo. He needs all the best wishes he can get.
January 6, 2012