Ya gotta' get sued to make the list.
TED,
For future reference, here are a couple of other similar guidelines for achieving notoriety (off the top of my head):
1. To be a successful motivational speaker, living a drug-free, crime-free life where you respected your parents and had the fortitude and discipline to work your way through college... is no good. You need to be someone who is in and out of rehab, have a love-hate relationship with your dealer, a mistrust for your parents because you blame them for your condition in the first place, and so on.
2. To be a true war hero, flying 2000 continuous error-free sorties, evading enemy fire, and volunteering for the next mission... is no good. You need to be shot down on your first sortie, captured, rescued, and sent back home on a stretcher.
I'm sure you can think of others.
BTW, just to be clear, I'm obviously not saying someone who overcame self-imposed hardship can't be motivational, nor that someone who was unfortunate enough to not last long in combat can't be a hero... just that there are varying degrees of each that I find to be paradoxical in how our society recognizes them.
- Jeff |
