Member-only story

A world in the The Tyson Zone

James Leroy Wilson
3 min readOct 9, 2019

--

Bill Simmons is credited for coining The Tyson Zone, after Mike Tyson: “T he point at which a celebrity’s behavior becomes so insane, that there is literally nothing they could do that would any longer shock or surprise you, or indeed any human being.”

Several years ago, Maybe the phrase was originally intended as mockery, but there’s something real about the phenomenon. It It’s been a slow but steady build-up, but I’m at a stage (or Charlie Sheen had entered it. This year, Antonio Brown certainly has.
is true that there’s nothing Brown could do that would shock or surprise me, and one is left hoping that his next thing is funny and harmless.
on a stage?) where nothing in this world surprises me. I wouldn’t rule out any accusations against the government, other powerful institutions, or wealthy celebrities, no matter how improbable they seem.

That’s why it’s hard to write about politics anymore. The accusation during the Iraq War is that the Establishment would use gossip about Britney Spears to distract us from the important issues. Now it seems they want to confuse us about the important issues.
The CIA, for instance, seems to have played a role in the 2014 Ukraine coup, and was instrumental in fomenting the rebellion in Syria that created ISIS. Could it have engineered the Hong Kong protests?
It wouldn’t surprise me.

Are nutritional studies deliberately falsified and made to contradict each other to…

--

--

James Leroy Wilson
James Leroy Wilson

Written by James Leroy Wilson

Former activist. Writer with a range of interests from spirituality to sports.

No responses yet