. We live in a society where elected leaders are felons and rapists, where draft dodgers call veterans losers, and military commitments to allies are abandoned for financial expediency and you want to begrudge a mean for cheating in athletic contests and for being mean to Jonas Gray (a professional athelete who can't be bothered to show to work on time). In the big picture, Bill Belichick is a nobody but people choose to villify him because they have nothing better to do with their time. I don't have a problem if you dislike the man because you question his character. My perspective of your judgement is who cares. "I am not a role m
That was meandering and I’m not sure what your point is because it is again a red herring; just like when you answered my concerns about his character with a rousing appeal to his football prowess.
Your comments have no cohesion and are akin to a baby eating strained baby pears and then spitting them up. You seem to assume I do not have plenty of room or the wherewithal to dislike people who allow for a society "where draft dodgers call veterans losers, and military commitments to allies are abandoned for financial expediency.” There is no serious time crunch where I can’t dislike all of these men. And Bill Belichick is not a politician, yet he is an important leader and civic figure. He is now the face of and is employed by one of the best education institutions in the Mid-Atlantic.
And here is the point I was making, and you make it for me in your own way. I have watched a general degradation of our culture and our burgeoning nihilism has been my bone of contention with Bill Belichick since the first serious indications of his rampant cheating back in ’02. I had begun to notice back then that there were more and more men like Bill in our institutions. They were taciturn and angry; all that mattered was a result that they deemed important, and the means to achieve their goals no longer mattered. I began to see a public acceptance of their methodology of cheating or corruption as the products of an admirable authenticity and drive rather than the realization that they were morally compromised men who practiced situationally convenient ethics for only their own benefit. They almost never acted with an idea or aim towards the beautiful, just, or good—never mind for the good of the public.
I could go on ad nauseam, but I don’t think you understand what I’m saying nor would you. You aren’t straw manning my argument. I’m not accusing you of that. You seem to have a functional inability to understand my argument, which is that Bill Belichick, wherever he goes, puts people in a situation in which their ethical integrity and moral uprightness is compromised en toto, and that this happens because he acts in such a way that it becomes apparent he is not guided by any moral compass nor a sense of decency. He transgresses in ways that have no regard for rules that have enacted over years that ensure fairness, decency, and our sense of what the good is in our lives.
And to make things worse than just being a man who wrecks places or ruins situations, Bill Belichick always seems to be in charge of or a significant part of big, public-facing institutions that we all benefit from when those institutions act in accordance with standards and practices we all recognize as the right ones. These are institutions that we put trust and time into, and when he is not a part of them they often bestow upon the public certain benefits that are just and they bring forth individuals that are upright—decent people who do things we all want to be witness to. And we see this as a good thing, and therefore, many people contribute their time, effort, and labor to make these institutions function the way they do because we respect others’ humanity qua being human.
But he never has. Not for any institution that he has been a part of. Those institutions that he is a part of; that allow him to be a part of them and lead them? They wind up with confused leaderships and disgraced adherents. Everything Bill touches turns to ****. Always.
I’ll speak commonly so you understand it. Bill wrecks big things that we all enjoy, love, and need. He leaves a trail of ****, anger, and confusion wherever he goes. He is a selfish ******* and he ruins places and people like the worst of the immoralists.
Now do you understand what I am saying?
