outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

how do you spot a fake?

A mate and I had to be "models" in a fun item for a Ladies fashion show at Brewarrina. My mate did the Aunty Jack presentation - deliberately hamming it up that he was actually a guy in ladies clothes. I did the more coy and modest presentation - as if I was actually a model. Each role was funny but if you can imagine a guy trying to look serious as a woman and not laughing along with the audience, then there is the humour. Peter Sellers was a master at understatement. It was deliberate understatement but it was coy and modest and therin was the humour. So why did Bob Hawke look like a more natural enthusiast when Australia won the America's Cup? He was a more genuine sportsman anyway and so he could carry on because it was part of his cultural psyche. Who he watches with, when to laugh, when to cheer, when to shake the head in disgust at a ref's decision. He was knowledgeable. Howard knows nothing, sits with the wrong crowd and acts only for the cameras, not according to his beliefs or knowledge of the game. He says the right thing but it is bullshit. Plato counted knowledge as justified, true, belief. Howard mimics knowledge. He doesn't believe, and he would not know if it was true or justified. He presents an expectation of what he THINKS others expect of him so he comes over as not being true to himself.

1 Comments:

At 9:50 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

You can tell howard is a fake because he would mot have looked out of place on the tv series nerds fc.

 

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