Celebrity Reporting on Celebrity

Surely, Micheal Lewis means to be ironic in his new podcast Against the Rules. He must know the irony in proselytizing about the entitlement of sports’ celebrities regarding their interaction with referees when airing his young son’s grievances over unfair calls. He is too well-educated to have failed to make that connection. Having his son refer to referees as “a@%holes” is too rich to be taken as coincidence.

I love a good podcast. As in Finding Forrester, the fictionalized writer chooses The National Enquirer and other newsstand rags as “dessert,” the modern podcast is downloadable dessert for those of us wishing for cheap entertainment.
And Against the Rules fills the listener with a narrative bred by an elitist writer who is raising an entitled son.

With an Ivy League education, Mr. Lewis encapsulates the very problem deeply rooted at this country. The brilliant wordsmith who offers up to the world a child nursed on the teat of entitlement and belittlement of the “little people” there to serve at their whim. The gentle listener wants to believe that Mr. Lewis respects the referees mentioned in his broadcast. But the coaxing of his son to use profanity to decry calls made against his junior basketball play intertwined with his atheist inculcation belittling those who assign thanks to God upon a successful play belies Mr. Lewis’s own agenda: a successful celebrity writer reporting on the entitlement of celebrity athletes.

It could not possibly be that he is a part of the problem. Raising his child to demean others on a national platform must feature future enlightenment regarding the radicalization of a generation who feels self-satisfied in deriding all who serve at the whim of their narrow-minded parents. For Mr. Lewis’s son is a fine example of the students who come to us with the idea that they are brilliant because they merely showed up to life. The young people who report to jobs with aristocratic beliefs about their superior abilities supported by their materialistically superior parents’ careful curation throughout the years.

Surely, Michael Lewis means to be ironic. If not, then we must classify his inability to see “Ref, You Suck!” as purely coincidental evidence of an ivory tower celebrity who mirrors the behavior of the other ill-bred wealthy guilty of choking our newsfeed with their daily dramas.

Although I see now that his second episode has dropped, I am hoping that he will find time to regale us with an account of how his family pool’s remote control for the waterfall won’t work. Imagine the language he can teach his heir while on the phone with the pool company?