{"id":292841,"date":"2016-01-17T21:19:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-18T02:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/2016\/01\/the-riskiest-of-public-performances\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T19:24:53","slug":"the-riskiest-of-public-performances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/2016\/01\/the-riskiest-of-public-performances\/","title":{"rendered":"The riskiest of public performances"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the years we\u2019ve born witness\u00a0to countless public performance where individuals have put themselves at grave risk as a means of making money, while\u00a0enhancing their personal brand in the process.<\/p>\n

Take, for example, the family of high-wire performers\u00a0known as the Flying Wallendas who rose to fame in the 1920s. \u00a0When, after their safety net was lost in transit, they went ahead and did\u00a0their act without it. One of their most well-known performances, the seven-person chair pyramid, claimed the lives of two Wallendas and paralyzed another. Over the years, two other Wallendas fell to their deaths, and a third lost his life when he made contact with\u00a0a live electrical wire with his metal rig. \u00a0But, as they say, the show must go on, and members of the Wallendas\u00a0\u2014 women an men\u00a0\u2014\u00a0are still performing their risky stunts\u00a0today.<\/p>\n

In 1974, Philippe Petit performed \u201cle coup\u201d, in which he walked on a high-wire between the twin towers of New York\u2019s World Trade Center. Well, actually, he walked back and forth between the twin towers. Eight times. He also danced on the wire. He kneeled and saluted onlookers. He even took a break to lay down on the wire. Petit did all of this over a span of 45 minutes. In shifting\u00a0winds. Without having slept for 36 hours.<\/p>\n

The most celebrated\u00a0of this brand of\u00a0performer was Harry Houdini. Among his\u00a0impressive\u00a0repertoire of risky acts were straitjacket escapes while suspended by a\u00a0rope from a building\u2019s roof, handcuff escapes while submerged in a water-filled tank, and repeated escapes from the \u201cwater torture cell\u201d. \u00a0In this one, Houdini was locked at the feet in stocks, and then lower upside-down into a tank overflowing with water. \u00a0It would take about three minutes for Houdini to escape, holding his breath all the while. \u00a0(And, no, Houdini did not die on stage while performing this stunt.\u00a0\u00a0He died in 1926, as a result ion complications from a ruptured appendix, in Detroit.)<\/p>\n

Now, in 2016, we\u2019re watching a different kind of risky public performance. \u00a0As with the previous examples, this performance has been growing\u00a0in its audacity\u00a0over the past twenty-odd years. \u00a0But, unlike the ones\u00a0that came before it, this act\u00a0puts the\u00a0audience<\/em>\u00a0\u2014 not the performer\u00a0\u2014 at risk.<\/p>\n

Some of the\u00a0most well-known of this new brand of\u00a0performer includes\u00a0Pat Robertson<\/a>,\u00a0Jim Cramer<\/a>, and\u00a0Sarah Palin<\/a>. \u00a0But, make no mistake, the Harry Houdini of this group is Donald Trump. \u00a0Trump\u2019s run at being the GOP\u2019s 2016 nominee for\u00a0president is all about enhancing the Trump brand, while sowing the seeds to make even more money for himself. \u00a0(My prediction: Trump will actually admit this after the show is over. \u00a0It\u2019s exactly the kind of thing a self-promoting showman like Trump would do.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

Other than having the spare cash\u00a0needed to mount a campaign, Trump is woefully unqualified to\u00a0run\u00a0<\/em>for president, let alone\u00a0be\u00a0<\/em>president. \u00a0By his own admission, he has no interest in preparing for the role of nominee\u00a0because\u00a0all that studying and preparation gets in the way of a good performance<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s be honest: In the beginning, it was sort of entertaining to watch Trump unleash a reign of terror over\u00a0the Republican party. It was like watching a long episode of Celebrity Apprentice in which Trump bombastically, and sometimes incoherently, runs\u00a0roughshod\u00a0over his potential consorts. \u00a0I wasn\u2019t expecting the show to go on this long, though. And now the show is getting really bad. \u00a0And scary.<\/p>\n

Using the\u00a0the last time Trump flirted with seeking the Republican party\u2019s nomination as a bellwether, I was waiting for the moment when he would be\u00a0asked to make public his tax returns so all the lies about his imagined\u00a0fortune and business acumen could be exposed. \u00a0But these days, nobody seems to care about tax returns. In 2016, evidence\u00a0of being completely disconnected\u00a0\u2014 philosophically or financially\u00a0\u2014 from the people you claim\u00a0to represent is no longer a disqualifier.<\/p>\n

So here we are, just weeks away from the Iowa caucuses, and Donald Trump\u2019s show\u00a0is still on tour. And, if polls are any indication, he\u2019s enjoying a wildly successful run. But, unlike Petit or the Flying\u00a0Wallendas or Houdini, Trump\u2019s public performances\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0put himself at risk. \u00a0On the contrary, they put\u00a0the rest of us\u00a0\u2014 his audience, and \u00a0those of us trying to avert our eyes\u00a0\u2014 at risk.<\/p>\n

On the off chance\u00a0Trump wins, he\u2019d put America\u2019s\u00a0reputation\u00a0around the world at risk with his racism and bigotry, and\u00a0his nonsense plans to ban\u00a0immigrants, and build a wall between Mexico and the U.S. \u00a0He\u2019d put\u00a0our financial health at risk because, contrary to his self-made mythology,\u00a0he\u2019s a terrible\u00a0business man<\/a>. And, he\u2019d put our safety at risk because his rhetoric about Islam plays into the hand of ISIS, and because\u00a0\u2014 if his advisors are to be believed\u00a0\u2014 he\u2019s willing to unleash America\u2019s nuclear arsenal to \u201cfix\u201d problems around the world; I mean,\u00a0why have nuclear weapons if you\u2019re afraid to use them<\/a>, right?<\/p>\n

But, even if he doesn\u2019t win, he\u2019s distracting us \u2014 and the most important of democratic political processes: the contest to be the most powerful and influential leader on the planet\u00a0\u2014 from some very real real problems that need solutions. Other than mindless rhetoric played for soundbites\u00a0and show, Trump (and his GOP rivals) are absent\u00a0when it comes to\u00a0mitigating and adapting to the very real threat if climate change. They are absent on improving the quality and affordability of education. They are absent on healthcare. They are absent on the plight of those in poverty in the U.S. and globally. They are absent on how to\u00a0effectively<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0realistically<\/em>\u00a0address the very real threat of radicalization and terrorism around the world. \u00a0I could go on.<\/p>\n

And, if he does lose\u00a0(and, he and his GOP contemporaries\u00a0probably will<\/a>), he still wins: Trump is\u00a0going to make a boatload of money. \u00a0No, fear not, this won\u2019t end badly for Trump. \u00a0Its only a matter of time before his oversized persona (and toupee) are snapped up, for cartel dollars, to appear in\u00a0some new reality show train wreck. It\u2019ll probably be on Fox.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s for all these reasons that Trump\u2019s show reminds me less of Houdini , and more of\u00a0the\u00a0impalement shows of centuries\u00a0gone by. \u00a0These performances featured extreme acts of\u00a0knife-throwing and archery. \u00a0They unfolded with human targets; you know the ones where the damsel in distress was strapped to a large, wooden, spinning wheel? \u00a0The job\u00a0of the\u00a0\u00a0performer was to\u00a0just<\/em>\u00a0miss<\/em>\u00a0the human target. \u00a0Really death-defying\u00a0stuff, but only\u00a0for the human target.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re watching the same kind of show in the GOP primary. Only, when it comes to\u00a0Donald Trump, the human target on spinning wheel is us.<\/p>\n

Andrew Cline \/ Shutterstock.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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