Actor Charlie Sheen represents the classic unhinged contemporary celebrity whose talent and/or popularity insulate him from the consequences of his actions until the bad habits thus encouraged finally push him or her into disaster. Thus it is with Sheen, whose drug and alcohol abuse, history of mistreatment of his wife and consequent divorce, use of prostitutes, and the like made him a sad example of celebrity self-indulgence and whose latest tirade resulted in the suspension of production of his popular TV show, Two and a Half Men. Sheen was a likable person whose raffish behavior eventually imposed costs too high for his employers to bear. It is natural for adolescents to crave freedom from all constraints and rebel against perfectly reasonable obstacles to their whims. (This, in my view, is the impulse behind the transvaluation of all values, of which Nietzsche and which progressivism has disastrously implemented in the years since the end of World War II.) It is unwise for a society to indulge people in such behavior, as the consequences are awful both for the society and for the individual involved. The idiotic vulgarity and foolish values promulgated by much of the culture show that to be true
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