It's the Day's Day of Days! Because the ragged edge of anarchy.
One doesn't want to rag on a child, no matter how unpleasant the adult they become is, but dear lord, everything about that picture screams 'schoolyard bully'. It's the combination of the lack of a smile and the rather arrogant demeanor. Obviously, there's a certain level of bias on my part, but I don't think I would be favorably inclined to the child in this picture even if I didn't know who he was.
And of course, the fans will coo, to try and fool themselves that they have empathy.
Surprisingly little cooing going on, though there was the inevitable comment about "boys becoming men" when Jan walks through a room.
ReplyDeleteIt's a rather unexpectedly random twist that he would open up a glimpse into his life like this, given how little information there is about him.
You see "schoolyard bully" and I can see why, but that didn't come across to me independently. Not in the same way that I know with certainty that, say, Matt Gaetz was a bully. (Come on, LOOK at the guy.) Or that Laura Ingraham was a mean girl.
I see an uncorrupted kid whose brain might, just MIGHT, have been salvageable at the time. But it was not to be.