Two Repressed Egotists

Joe Swash narrowly missed being the inaugural post of the ‘Unremitting Bastard’ blog, but the guy is rendered benign by an inordinate lack of intelligence, and can’t be held to account. That said he really is pushing his too thick to be harmful credentials with ‘Joe Swash: I Believe in Ghosts.’ I wouldn’t raise an eyebrow if I was told Joe Swash has commissioned a special net with which to catch Father Christmas, and thusly I do find it hard to understand the rationale behind allowing him to mediate a potentially interesting argument between spiritualism, religion and science. Unless the rationale was cynically; who is thick enough to allow even the kind of person that watches a programme on ghosts on BBC 3 feel superior? (I do realise that I fall squarely into that category.) Perhaps a producer overheard him pronounce poltergeist.

I know it was on BBC 3, and was likely to be a bit silly, but to me it verges on exploitation. What next: ‘Joe Swash: Are the purple things with the weird noses from the Raccoons real, and why are their noses like that?’ This is not a partisan and sceptical only idiots believe in ghosts rant. I don’t know what I believe about ghosts. I have never given it any sustained thought and it is likely I won’t in the knowledge that sustained thought is not going to bring me closer to an answer. But I can say with solid certainty that Joe Swash is not the person that will help me untangle what I think about ghosts. A man so overwhelmed by the tangible aspects of life,that he ought really to draw a line at the intangible ones.