Thu - March 25, 2004


A Socratic Dialogue On Donald Trump


  MORGAN: What are you watching?

  TIM: The Fabulous Life of Donald Trump. Man, that guy is loaded.

  MORGAN: Is his the life you aspire to?

  TIM: Hell yeah. He's a freakin' billionaire, man. The fame, the models, the money... What's not to like?

  MORGAN: So you think his money makes him happy? It doesn't look like he gets much of a chance to enjoy it.

  TIM: Well, yeah, you've got to work for that kind of money. But look at his work, putting up buildings, doing deals... That's gotta be great.

  MORGAN: So you think he enjoys his work?

  TIM: Yeah. Who wouldn't?

  MORGAN Do you think he'd do it for free?

  TIM: No, what would be the point of that?

  MORGAN: I don't know. But he has to work so hard to get all of this money that he can't enjoy because he's working all the time. What's the point of that?

  TIM: I bet he gets a chance to enjoy the money and the fame. He can go wherever he wants.

  MORGAN: That's true. When Mitchell took me to that Rolling Stones concert, he was in the row in front of us.

  TIM: See?

  MORGAN: He was asleep.

  TIM: So maybe he was tired.

  MORGAN: From the work he loves to do for the money and the fame that allow him to sleep in a small, hard $300 seat in Madison Square Garden instead of at home on a soft couch in front of a football game?

  TIM: Well, when you put it like that...

  MORGAN: What do you do when you get a day off?

  TIM: Mostly sleep.

  MORGAN: And if you had a bunch of days off?

  TIM: I'd watch some games, go to the movies, maybe play some golf or go down to the beach.

  MORGAN: If you could do anything you wanted?

  TIM: That would pretty much be it.

  MORGAN: You work pretty hard. Do you think you get as many days off as Trump?

  TIM: Probably more.

  MORGAN: So how is Trump better off than you? Why are you watching his life, rather than him watching yours?

  TIM: He's got all that money.

  MORGAN: Have you ever heard of samsara?




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