“Never apologize and never explain—it's a sign of weakness.”
-John Wayne
"She Wore a Yellow Ribbon".
I heard that line on TCM one day some years ago, and it made me go "WTF?!?!", cuz it just didn't make any sense to me as anything but assholism.
There's no way I could process it that made it a cool line, or wise advice, or whatever the fuck it was trying to be.
Here's my problem with the logic.
If you never apologize, you never acknowledge mistakes.
If you never acknowledge mistakes, you can never fix mistakes.
If you never fix mistakes, you're just planning on being a shitty fuckup forever, and announcing it to the world.
If you're going to announce to the world that you plan on being a shitty fuckup, then you had best never bitch about other people's fuckups, and you damned well had best not expect apologies from them.
When people DO fuck up, and don't apologize for it, then logically, you must respect them as strong willed.
So, this ultimately forces you to admire assholes like Trump.
He constantly fucks up, and never apologizes.
But, Trump is a pathetic whiner about other people.
His tweets are oozing with butt-hurt.
So, Trump admirers are rampaging hypocrites.
And so is Trump.
But, we knew that.
And John Wayne was a hypocrite, in real life, he was as dumb as Archie Bunker, and complained bitterly about hippies.
Straw man versions of 'em anyway.
Drunkenly.
If he'd been around for Twitter, he'd sound pretty much like Trump.
Maybe he'd spell better, that's about it.
So, fuck that happy horseshit, you have to clean up your fucking messes, and learn, and grow, and evolve.
Trying to be a stubborn rock doesn't make you strong, it only makes you a fucking blockhead.
Like the Trump-ublicans.
That's the endgame.
That's where you end up.
Screw John Wayne, and screw Frank S. Nugent for writing that dopey line.
And don't get your philosophy from goddamned cowboy movies.
Read a goddamned book.
No wonder this country is the way it is right now.
Holy shit.
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