Girdles and jocks

Ok so I am a nerd.  I was listening to the radio today about magic.  Really a radio show about magic shows.  Magic doesn't really translate well to the a non visual medium, and I started to think about perspective.  Magic, in many cases, is about perspective and misdirection.  Ive written about perspective before.  It is a phenomenon that fascinates me.  Oddly people have not been pelting me with platitudes about fish and such, which I am grateful for.  But I do feel that keeping things in perspective is important.  Imagine if you will (that I am Rod Serling) two people standing next to each other.  One of them starts to walk away.  To each of them, the other gets smaller and eventually vanishes.  In reality neither changes size nor vanishes. Their perspective of each other has changed. But does that really matter ? For the viewer it is real isn't it ?  The same applies to the time dilation principles of space acceleration but that is for another day.  If we as an audience member see someone being sawed in half, is that person effectively sawed in half ?  Intellectually we know that no one can survive vivisection and reassembly.  We suspend our belief. But what WE see is a person in two parts.  The magician and their victim see the inner workings.. If the "sawee's" container was turned a degree or two in another direction... our perspectives would change. We accept many things based on perspective... I mean look at Fox News.  We are taught to trust our senses ("Seeing is believing").  If we can't rely on the our five senses. what can we rely upon ?

So I am going to make a huge jump here and apply this supposition to some more real world situations.  I had a friend of several years who I shall call  "And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little"  The sobriquet is appropriate on a couple of levels.  Any way...Miss R and I had a conversation the other night that arced in a way that serves as a great example of perspective.  The first (and sober) part dealt with gossip about a person mutually known to us.  This person is complaining about holiday decorations on public buildings being discriminatory.  To the kvetcher's perspective, wreaths represent something that is non secular.  Miss Reardon thinks that the kvetcher is simply trying to make an issue of a non-issue.  So who is right ?  Why not both ?  

As the frozen cosmos starting hitting Miss R's bloodstream, he starting to acknowledge his drunkenness.  He also started to assert that he and I were the same when it comes to alcohol abuse.  I drink.  I enjoy drinking.  It has a place in my liver.  But am I on the same level as Miss R ?  I don't think so, but clearly he does.  Each has a point... each has a perspective... each is right... each is wrong..

Finally, Our Miss Reardon was stumbling drunk.  I asked him if he would do me a favor... I asked him if he would let me help him walk down the stairs.  If he could help me out ( by letting me help him) my boss wouldn't get mad at me.  He agreed.... until he reached the door.. I thanked him for helping me out.. he then turned to me and said "WE ARE DONE"... perspective all over the place.

I mean...look at Tom Wopat's career... look at current events... I mean look at Fox News


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