Ok I admit I had never once watched an episode of the popular situation comedy, Two and a Half Men”. But like a lot of people, I’ve never been one to turn away from a possible train wreck and with the Charlie Sheen Express clearly off track, I’m with the rest of the world, waiting and watching for the inevitable derailment.
I watched in utter amazement the Academy award winning performance of Christian Bale, as the drug addicted Dicky Eklund in The Fighter and now can only make comparisons to the life of Charlie Sheen as he is being portrayed in reality as crashing and burning in front of our very eyes. Unlike Christian’s Oscar winning performance, Charlie’s is all too real and it’s a performance in which the ultimate award is one none of us would wish upon our own worst enemies. Many of us are now incapable of finding the humour in this “I am melting” moment in Sheen’s life.
The media are the paparazzi piranha that group of feeding frenzy gossip Nazi’s who can’t seem to get enough of this tsunami. Deepak Chopra, that California based medical doctor and one time assistant to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, has said the media and viewing public are “definitely part of the problem.” You think? (Incidentally, if Deepak Chopra were to marry Oprah Winfrey she would become Oprah Chopra.) Sorry, couldn’t resist.
Seriously though, Chopra says that Sheen’s behaviour has its roots in Jungian psychology. According to Chopra, Carl Jung believed each of us to have a shadow, a dark side that we routinely repress, but if continually ignored, will eventually surface and humiliate each one of us. But Chopra also believes we are Charlie’s collective shadow. We get to ignore our own demons while we sit and watch Charlie struggle with his. So I ask you, which one of us is sicker?
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