Vulnerable and Humility

So I've pointed out the Hedonistic way of life Tucker Max lives. I've also showed you the way Tucker Max treats women. In this blog post, I'm going to review one story, Tucker tells, that shows himself in a humiliating and vulnerable light. We can only hope that he will learn from it.

The story is when Tucker ruptured his appendix. He was filming with MTV and he had major pain in his abdomen. He put off going to the hospital because he was filming with MTV until some of his doctor friends persuaded him to go the ER because one should never underestimate internal pain. After several tries of trying to get looked at at the ER, Tucker leaves, not willing to wait in line. Unfortunately for Tucker, the pain just gets worse. Of course, being in pain doesn't help his respect for other people. In fact, Tucker is just as rude when he was in pain than he was in not in pain.

After a rude interaction with some nurses, Tucker Max has a full physical examination with a doctor, including a prostate exam. Needless to say, I think Tucker Max was feeling a little uncomfortable. I mean, the way he lives his life, it's basically all about sex and that can't get out of his head. They decide to prep Tucker for surgery so, of course, there has to be a catheter (medical protocol and all that.) With a prostate exam and a catheter to boot, I would say Tucker Max's meter of humiliating things was getting pretty full at this point. He ended up not needing surgery so had to endure the pain of the removal of the catheter.

This didn't stop Tucker from being a total jerk to the nurses and the doctors. You'd think that being humiliated would somehow make him look at his life and somehow be humbled a little. But, you would see that this is Tucker Max and he doesn't care about that. It seems to me that the human gut reaction to do when you are poked and prodded into a humiliating and vulnerable state, we tend to lash out at the others around us. This may be the human gut reaction, but that should not stop us from respecting one another as human beings. It's like the Golden Rule, the universal moral code. We should treat others with respect just as we would like them to treat us with respect...apparently, Tucker Max hasn't exactly understood that rule yet. But we can always hope....right?