The Grandeur Opulence of His Majesty Charlie Sheen

The American pop culture is absolutely fascinating and disturbing. It has given rise and prominence to people like Paris Hilton, Britney Spears, and that lady who always makes the shape of a heart with her hands – Paula Abdul. 

And then there is this prostitute obsessed, rehab clinic favorite and dick trolling Charlie Sheen – the best thing to happen to Americans and perhaps the world since Santa Claus. Great actor – Hot Shots was an absolute laugh riot – thankfully I was not admitted to any clinic for laughing too hard.

Now what obviously has been lost in translation perhaps is the underlying motive behind all of Charlie Sheen’s great one act plays. I can still remember meeting a cousin of mine who had come to visit me from America in 1995. America was in a mourning mood then. Sadness, despair and fear had exchanged places with hope, excitement and joy. The Oklahoma City Bombing in April of that year had killed 168 people, including 19 children. UK’s oldest investment bank, Barings Bank had collapsed and Jacques Chirac was elected the President of France.

The list of disasters and atrocities was a long one. And it was up to one young man to flip the nation’s mood from the grim to the one of excitement, and joyous. That young man was Charlie Sheen. For the greater goodness of his country - and the world - he sacrificed his own reputation by becoming a witness in the high profile case of Hollywood madam, Heidi Fleiss. 

His sacrificed paid off. 

For weeks and months all the attention was drawn to his $53k bonking adventures. America was back to what it used to be – pop culture indulged. My cousin was happy. Infact she called me up and told me to read about Charlie’s exploits in the next edition of the Peoples magazine. Internet was oblivious to me then and Facebooks founder would have been playing Gardenville or making Face Slate.

That was 16 years ago. 

Fast forward to this year and America and its people needed him again - Charlie did not hesitate for a second. Infact he sacrificed his television career for the greater good of the nation - and the world – once again.

I can still recall CNN’s Anderson Cooper on his AC360 saying that his audience was sending him tweets and emails telling him ‘they did like to be informed about the revolutions in the Middle East, but the coverage was excessive’ and it was making everyone downright depressive. Now Anderson justified it by saying that what was happening was a once in a lifetime event – ditto.

But Charlie Sheen wasn’t going to take any of Anderson Coopers explanation. His main concern was changing the mood of the nation – and the world – by taking attention away from the effort of bloodied students and youths in Egypt and later on in Libya. Now this was Charlie Sheen and he has always had extra sleeves for his secret weapons. The first one that he unleashed was some chick whose only name I and perhaps others would remember was ‘Bombshell.’ 

What a master stroke Charlie Sheen pulled! The guy’s dexterous antics basically took my breath away. But the attention of the people constantly diverted back and stuck like tartar to the events in the Middle East.

And it became the defining moment in Charlie Sheen's career. It would be this moment for which he would not only be remembered by others, but he would remember himself – actually when he remembers, it would be his former self. 

He trashed his executives and bosses on The Don Patrick Show. Challenged some Chuck guy who was some writer and creator of his show to a fight – probably scaring the crap out of that poor guy and and it was his this audacious attempt which finally diverted the attention of the 'meaningful news fatigued Americans' towards him - and consequently away from all the sadness and misery of a once in a lifetime and transformational event, that is, the revolution in the Middle East. 

Thank you Charlie Sheen!