Getting Real

I don't watch a lot of reality TV, but being bored I watched a new show called Hotel Hell for the last two nights.

The gist of the show is for Gordon Ramsay, who has spent the last several years on TV swearing at aspiring chefs, to go to hotels desperately in need of help, swear at somebody or several somebodies, and then magically transform the disaster into a working and pleasant place to stay.

The details of the first hotel aren't terribly important except to say that the final transformation was entirely superficial and that it is highly doubtful that the place can survive much longer than it will take for the initial publicity to wear off, because the manager is fundamentally a bird brain and he can't be replaced because he's the life partner of the chief investor.

There are three laws of living:
1. Everyone is uneducated about some things.
2. Everyone is inexperienced about some things.
3. Everyone is stupid about some things.

You can cure uneducated. You can cure inexperienced. But you just can't cure stupid.
A big part of living well is a matter of improving the things you can improve and acknowledging your limitations so they don't destroy everything.

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Passing on info from londonkds, since he doesn't take comments here. A website called Friendblab has been copying material from DW and LJ journals and reposting it as if the journals were Friendblab journals. In a quick check I have seen info pages taken directly from DW. Although my user name didn't come up directly in a user search at Friendblab, I was able to find it through searching for others with more friends over there at DW.