Thread: Just Correct: Me, plain and simple

Allow me a little delving into Pop Culture, and the harshness of the way things are. As someone who knows the literary side of things, let me use this metaphor. This is the 50th60th anniversary of James Bond, the movie franchise's popularity and the literary history. That being said, there are many who criticize the start of the 1 Billion and counting earning Skyfall. The butt hurt are saying how not like Sean Connery Daniel Craig is as Bond, but in truth, Craig, much like George Lazenby, Timonthy Dalton, and Pierce Brosnan, is much closer to the literary Bond, and it is welcome for those who only enjoyed the Connery and Roger Moore films for their over the top things, but they were all good for what they were. Now, for what that means in the real world that I have had to deal with today. Truth, like character, is greatly dependent on one's point of view. Plain and simple. Our lives shade it, and many times what we think is criticism or support are actually the very opposite. Sometimes people want you to fix something that is perfectly fine, or want to show you something that, though many have thought it just fine is totally unacceptable. The line is not invisible, but it is very thin. Projected the illusion that everything is fine, the entire fake it till you make it ideal is just not ever going to bear fruit either. Sean and Roger, for example, are just as good of actors as George, Timothy, Pierce, and Daniel, no argument. The truth is in the details that they are being supported for different takes on the same character, and some are closer to how the vision was for the creator, Ian Fleming, than others. The details matter to one who nitpicks, but not to most, and that makes those like me, who are paid to play devil's advocate on a daily bases, ecstatic. In the past, I defended or clarified things I wrote, especially on here. I won't anymore. Long or short, detailed or vague, not going to do it anymore. It is draining, and in all honesty, with very few exceptions, I don't owe it to most people under most circumstances. I don't do it where I get paid, and I no longer do it with my family and friends in real life, so why here. I am just me, and that is who I am going to be. I admit, I love to offend self-righteous people, especially when they have painted this nice picture 'of themselves. They are the kind of person who would paint a huge read dot in the middle of a white canvus, hang it in a museum, and have people come around and humm, haw, OO, Ahh, and murmur about it while a really decent picture is passed up and criticized. Me, I would walk right up to the artist and ask him if he got permission from the government of Japan to steal their flag to call it art. I don't think it is okay to be nasty, but the truth is not about nice, it is simply about truth. Something on here reminded me of that, and I do thank that person from the bottom of my heart. The reality is that telling someone I told you so can only be justifiably called being snide and pompous when it is not true. When the person REALLY DID tell you so, and there was no malice or meanness involved... you just have to take it they did. It's not nice. It's not sweet. It's not painless. It's definitely not fair. Fair, though, is only in the dictionary between fail and faith, and fair also applies to why that person told you what they did even when they are right. If they did it because they care, and there is no personal past history stuff involved, then you have to owe up to they told you. If they have issues... then... well... there in lies the rub. Does that give me license not to admit being wrong? No, but it also goes back to the Phantom Tollbooth axiom It is better to do the wrong thing for the right reason than to do the right thing for the wrong reason. It is always good to do the right thing for the right reason... but I see little of that from some types of people. Not judging, but then I don't have to.