The Dude is thinking outside the boxers; any proposition has a value stream and the Cowboy Consultant’s mission is to identify and intensify it.
Forgit your tired old ethics and aesthetics — the critical part of Pay Per View is PAY. Ol’ Sh*t-fer-brains is on this case, like a mule goin’ up a ladder.
“He’s washing dishes and baby clothes / He’s so ambitious, he even sews / But don’t forget, folks / Thats what you get, folks,/ For makin’ whoopee.” Gus Kahn & Walter Donaldson
Remember Benjamin Doonesbury, Mike’s younger bro? Aka “Dr Whoopee”.
He’s coped with wars and wounds, and learned that his own strength doesn’t have to be a wall (or a helmet); he’s looking at himself and others with empathy and sympathy.
The TFG presidency and its ending were just SSDD to him — disappointing but not really surprising, certainly not disabling.
One step after another, BD, always toward the sound of the guns.
A candy-colored clown they call The Sandman / Tiptoes to my room every night…