
{"id":5870453,"date":"2011-03-02T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T21:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/?p=5870453"},"modified":"2011-03-02T14:18:11","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T22:18:11","slug":"charlie-sheens-mad-mad-mad-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/charlie-sheens-mad-mad-mad-world.html","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Sheen&#8217;s Mad Mad Mad World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Charlie Sheen (a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/virile-virgo-men.html\/\">Virgo<\/a><\/strong> with moon in Sagittarius) recently shocked\/entertained the world with a bombastic rant on the Alex Jones Show in which he lashed out at his employers and celebrated his own prowess at &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/winning-by-cheating.html\/\">Winning<\/a><\/strong>,&#8221; and described himself as, among other things, &#8220;an F-18&#8221; and a &#8220;high priest Vatican assassin warlock.&#8221; His public outburst\u2014which, as of this writing, has apparently cost him his job and custody of his two sons\u2014is an example of untrammeled male id bursting out of its cage. This is one of the forces which society spends more energy than just about anything repressing, and which it consequently tends to fetishize by allowing others, usually public figures, to act it out in public for those to afraid to do so in their own lives\u2014though not without punishing them afterward. Does this offer a glimpse into why people are so fascinated by Charlie Sheen?<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/guyism.com\/celebrities\/why-charlie-sheen-is-a-hero-to-men.html\">Guyism reports:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is Charlie Sheen\u2019s world. We\u2019re just living in it.<\/p>\n<p>Go check your Facebook or Twitter feed. Everyone is linking to stories about him, quoting his diatribes, and either celebrating or condemning him. It\u2019s most likely split by gender: ladies deriding Sheen as a \u201cpig\u201d and \u201casshole,\u201d guys praising him (correctly) as the most hilarious person on earth. He\u2019s instantly become a hero to millions of educated, courteous young males who would never emulate his antics \u2014 nor watch\u00a0<em>Two and a Half Men<\/em>, for that matter \u2014 yet admire him with irony and sincerity.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Sheen\u2019s appeal isn\u2019t exclusively the wild hedonism&#8230; His appeal is that, while most guys \u2014 especially post-college \u2014 must reign in their ids and demure to society\u2019s expectations to advance rung by rung up the soul-crushing ladder of corporate mediocrity, Sheen has reached the ultimate apex of manhood eternal: doing whatever he wants and speaking the complete truth, consequences be damned. (Even if the complete truth, as he perceives it, is \u201cI got tiger blood,\u201d \u201cI have a 10,000-year-old brain,\u201d and \u201cI\u2019m an F-18, bro.\u201d)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What do you think\u2014what does Sheen&#8217;s behavior, and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.californiapsychics.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/the-devil-card.html\/\">our treatment of it as a society<\/a><\/strong>, say about us?<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-top: 1px dotted #c9d9d9;border-bottom: 1px dotted #c9d9d9;margin: 10px 0px;padding: 10px 4px;font-weight: bold\"><strong>What&#8217;s ahead for <em>your <\/em>life path?<\/strong> Try a psychic reading. <!-- ADD COPY ABOVE -->Call <span style=\"font-size: 16px;color: #d33d26\">1.800.573.4830<\/span> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.californiapsychics.com\/c\/c.aspx?lid=110524\">choose your psychic now. <\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does Charlie Sheen&#8217;s outburst say about us as a society, and the double standards we have 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