This is a post about Morgan Wallen that is not about Morgan Wallen.
By now, you have read about the intemperate country singer Wallen, throwing a chair off a sixth-floor roof of a bar in Nashville. And if you read that sentence over again, you may notice that nothing about those words seems not to make sense. We can all believe that this young man is up to stunts such as throwing a chair off a roof six floors in the air, because he has a track record of bad behavior and repeated apologies and pledges to do better and all the rest of the celebrity feet-shuffling his handlers have him do.
So I am not talking about him. Until he gets some help and guidance in his affairs, he will continue this spiral. Notice that in the mugshot he posed for in the Nashville lockup, he is grinning like an alley cat who just found a discarded Filet-O-Fish. I'm sure that as he was being arrested on three felony counts of reckless endangerment and one count of disorderly conduct, someone mentioned that the chair he tossed to his own great amusement missed hitting (and probably killing) two police officers three feet away. He doesn't care. He laughs.
What's on my mind is the stupid reply I saw on Facebook on Monday. Some woman wrote as a comment to the original story that "That's just Morgan...he's just a big kid having fun...he's only 30! Leave him alone."
I assume that woman was speaking for others as well as her own foolish self, and that's what bothers me. This bumpkin Wallen is going to career along on his dissolute path until he or someone else winds up dead or maimed.
But meanwhile, the rest of us have to live in a country where a certain amount of people regard throwing a chair off a roof, regardless of who or what might be below, as good clean fun, something to be allowed because "he's only 30."
I don't know how old those two police were, but it's only by the grace of God that they will be around to see their next birthdays. Let's not normalize heinously dangerous behavior.
(Steps aways from pulpit.)
1 comment:
Amen!
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