"Shut Up and Suffer"

Okay, I'll admit that I sometimes even surprise myself with my, ahem, creative thinking.

I was skimming the NYTimes movie review of the new film which I will probably not see, as I never saw the first part, of "Pirates of the Carribean: Dead Man's Chest" and I found this excerpt there for you:-

And since "Dead Man's Chest" brazenly dispenses with the convention of an ending — it's pretty much all middle — you will, by virtue of buying that ticket, have committed yourself to buying another one a year from now if you're the least bit curious about how the whole thing turns out.

The question is: Is it worth it?

The same thought probably crosses the minds of Disney theme-park vacationers as they endure endless lines for the ride on which the movies are based, but the notion is quickly banished because nobody likes to feel like a sucker.

By a rational calculation of time and money — yours and the untold millions invested by Disney, the producer Jerry Bruckheimer and others — the answer is probably no. But hey, this isn't about that, right? It's about fun. You're there to have fun. Fun for the family. Fun for the kids. Fun for everyone.

So shut up and have fun.

I don't know if it occured to you but I thought to myself, this paradigm fits Israeli politicians who pursue concessionist policies of surrendering territory of the Jewish homeland and the voters who support them.

At the beginning of the Oslo Process, I said to friends that Rabin was acting, to my mind, like someone with a deep psychological disability, as if he knew that he was getting into trouble but figured that, damn it all, he'd just rush through and finish with it and then turn around to see if he could fix things. But to stop in the middle and take stock and make alterations, that he was mentally incapable of doing.

The behavior pattern the movie reviewer, A.O. Scott, describes above is one handy tool to reconsider what we citizens are facing in our leaders.

Unfortunately, it's rather "shut up and suffer" (while I, Mr. Politician, become famous, meet important people and even maybe make some mony, some of it illegal, on the side).