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What a melodrama!
Published: Monday | June 28, 2010
The Editor, Sir:
The don, the pastor and the politician. A Caribbean melodrama. What do they have in common? Headlines, power-seeking, manipulation and, of course, life and death. Forget the stories, forget the details, and forget the sensationalism on TV, the newspapers, and the ever-present word on the street. Coke, Golding and Miller played out their parts in the play exactly as we might have expected them to do, didn't they?
Coke is easily accused of being a singular don: intimidating, controlling, domineering, cruel, ruthless, murderous, and above all else, corrupt and evil. All he wanted was his place in the sun, his little throne and his outlaw, Robin Hood-image, either feared or adored by his subjects.
Classic politician
Golding is easily accused of being a classic politician: articulate, wise, and leader-like, yet a coin with two sides: deceitful, shallow, cowardly and above all else, self-serving. In the end, above or beyond principle, he wants to get re-elected and maintain the breadth and longevity of his reputation, questionably at all or any cost.
Miller is easily accused of being a typical publicity-seeking clergyman: charismatic, inspirational, and driven, yet arrogant, ambitious and conflicted. His kind wants to help solve all our problems when they're important enough to make the news, making certain at the same time their names are on the solution and, we must suspect, the altar plate as well.
So it would seem that in this world of the popular and the public, the prideful and the profane, the pompous and the powerless, there will always be yet another would-be don to bring to justice, yet another aspiring politician to fall from grace and yet another publicity-seeking minister to save the world as did the founder of the faith. It is a hollow trinity at best, isn't it?
I am, etc.,
ED MCCOY
mmhobo48@juno.com
Published: Monday | June 28, 2010
The Editor, Sir:
The don, the pastor and the politician. A Caribbean melodrama. What do they have in common? Headlines, power-seeking, manipulation and, of course, life and death. Forget the stories, forget the details, and forget the sensationalism on TV, the newspapers, and the ever-present word on the street. Coke, Golding and Miller played out their parts in the play exactly as we might have expected them to do, didn't they?
Coke is easily accused of being a singular don: intimidating, controlling, domineering, cruel, ruthless, murderous, and above all else, corrupt and evil. All he wanted was his place in the sun, his little throne and his outlaw, Robin Hood-image, either feared or adored by his subjects.
Classic politician
Golding is easily accused of being a classic politician: articulate, wise, and leader-like, yet a coin with two sides: deceitful, shallow, cowardly and above all else, self-serving. In the end, above or beyond principle, he wants to get re-elected and maintain the breadth and longevity of his reputation, questionably at all or any cost.
Miller is easily accused of being a typical publicity-seeking clergyman: charismatic, inspirational, and driven, yet arrogant, ambitious and conflicted. His kind wants to help solve all our problems when they're important enough to make the news, making certain at the same time their names are on the solution and, we must suspect, the altar plate as well.
So it would seem that in this world of the popular and the public, the prideful and the profane, the pompous and the powerless, there will always be yet another would-be don to bring to justice, yet another aspiring politician to fall from grace and yet another publicity-seeking minister to save the world as did the founder of the faith. It is a hollow trinity at best, isn't it?
I am, etc.,
ED MCCOY
mmhobo48@juno.com