I studied drama before switching to history, which proved useless in the job market, so when I got out of the Navy and the Vietnam War, I got a master’s degree in journalism, and I’ve been plying my trade for peanuts ever since.
The only reason I mention this is because of the Bidens’ latest sleight-of-hand maneuver to change Joe Biden from a bumbling idiot whose brain long since departed him to a sympathetic figure.
How did they do this? Gee, let’s eee: Two days after the release of the embarrassing tapes of Joe Biden’s interivew by Special Counsel Robert Hur, they released news that the former President had aggressive prostate cancer, which somehow was just discovered after the tapes were made public.
Now, I’m not a physician but a 9 on the Johnson Scale, or whatever it’s called, indeed indicates an aggressive form of prostate cancer. The scale only goes to 10.
Are they trying to tell us that this condition was just discovered? What happened when he had all those annuial physicals as President, which always resulted in a finding of the man being in robust health? No signs of cancer?
Anyway, you can refer to my previous post about the “clever fox” in Joe Biden — and Jill and Hunter and probably all the Bidens — to get some background on this post.
Greek tragedy hinged on two inter-related concepts — pity and fear.
Aristotle :In his Poetics defines tragedy as “an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude …
In a Greek tragedy, we thus are led to feel pity for the central figure as he is beset by tragic forces. or fate, and then from that pity we feel fear that we might suffer the same fate.
This twist of fate — or “unmerited misfortune” — is usually the result of the central character’s tragic flaw, or hamartia.
Anyway (to use a favorite Biden word), the Bidens now want us to feel pity for the former Presidential Surrogate, and in the process disregard the taped interview, or view that as an unraveling of “unmerited misfortune.”
What next? Joe Biden is going to gouge his eyes out like Oedipus? (Symbolically, of course.)
Very doubtful, as that would require someone who actually has honor and self-awareness, two human characteristics sadly unrecognizable in one Mr. Joseph Biden.