Having problems discriminating between fiction and reality?

[thewayne]

"Rich people prominently featured and they're generous; they're nice people, they create jobs, for heaven's sake; they're classy; they've got style and we love 'em...That show is wildly popular, which poses a threat to the Left, doesn't it?"
—Fox Business host Stuart Varney on Downton Abbey

I think it poses a threat to anyone who looks to television or sports for role models.

I guess we're supposed to embrace a period-set soap opera as a model for our country and economy? I don't think so. I guess he didn't look past the fact that if the servants left, they wouldn't be able to dress or feed themselves.

I listened to a podcast of NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me that featured Hugh Bonneville, it was quite amusing listening to them discuss the program. Myself, I haven't seen it. Maybe someday, too much other stuff to watch that I know that I enjoy.

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[silveradept]

Yeah. I think most of us would consider the Baen success model to be unsuccessful, assuming we actually knew about it instead of just reading our investment statements.

Yet, a certainly seem to lionize having more money than Trump, because it allows for freedom unavailable to people who have to work for a living.