Duck Dynatsy Dude; Ridiculing the Ridiculous, and Moving On

THE DUCK DYNASTY DUDE is coming back to American television, and all's well that ends well. The TV program "Duck Dynasty" might be a bit difficult for anyone not intimately familair with American culture and its various subcultures, such as anyone who is not an American. How we Americans love to poke fun at our various subcultures. Which is exactly what Phil Robertson, the Duck Dynasty Dude, was doing that got him in trouble in the first place. How ironic. A television show devoted to laughing, in a positive healthy way, at paople in an American sub culture who willingly participated in making fun of themselves, and their provincial culture. Suddenly, one of the provincials makes a comment about two othr American sub cultures: blacks, and gays, the two most "controversial" sub cultures in the country, if only because of the traditional and shameful manner in which blacks and gay people have been been treated by other sub cultural groups; such as Ohil Robertson's. The rule appears to be that you can ridicule or even dinigrate your own ethnicity or subculture, but nobody else's. You just have to sit and watch other people ridiculing themselves, but you cannot join in the fun. Very well, then, let's just all make sure we play by the rules. But when somebody - anybody - makes a stupid comment, let's just ridicule the ridiculous for a little bit, express our disagreement and disapproval, and then move on. Any greater show of forces gives far too much attention to a matter which is best forgotten. Everything stupid that the Duck Dynasty Dude ever says will be forgotten soon enough. His only chance of enduring gfame may reside entirely within the realm of his own social sub culture, and his ability to effectively make fun of himself, not others, week after week, on a very fickle American television network, in front of a very fickle viewing audience.