Icon bowling

Gotta love it.

Bring 'em on. Icon bowling, just bring your favorite icon by and we can use him/her for one of the pins. What good are those icons if they can't adjust to a little icon-bashing. Iconoclast, you say. That'd be correct. Those icons are all about imagery, and just can't stand to pay all those PR types all that money to create an image, and then have some dork smash that image. The biggest problem is that the iconoclast's best weapon is the truth. I've woke up with a few of those icons whose low budget image wore off overnight. Shocking, even amazing, but some women wake up with a different face than they go to bed with. Now, we say politician, public personalitiy, whatever, and don't realize that it is the same problem. That should pretty much clear up the question, "do we need icon smashers?" Hell, yes. I hate to think that people are actually fooled by these images, but That is the real conclusion I have drawn. Maybe a little help is needed in how to spot the imagery, the reflections. One of my favorites is to read the papers and magazines and then think about any exact opposite interpretations of what I have read. It seems that lies are the exact opposite of the truth and if you can hypothesize the exact opposite, then you can decide if it is more likely to be the truth. This is a habit that takes a little practice, but practice makes perfect, and the results are fantastic. Can you imagine that. A lie is the opposite of the truth, by it's very nature. That is also the flaw in the ointment. The key to resolving ambiguity. I really like Bill Clinton and was truly proud that we had a flagrant heterosexual for president, but does "I did not have sex with that woman," sound like the opposite of something. How about, "read my lips, I will not raise taxes." Apply this exercise with any news story that has the possibility for PR spin and start keeping score with the results. You may wake up. If not, you weren't needed, thank you, anyway.