Clarkson

Clarkson is a TV personality who earns a great deal of money and whom I usually find totally obnoxious.

But this afternoon, Microsoft News brought me a bit of news about him in which he makes a good point. So in the course of an unpleasantly (and quite unnecessarily) coarse rant about some royals cutting a deal with Netflix, he makes the point that caring deeply about something is usually a bad recipe for making a good television programme about the something.

I am reminded that even back in the days when some of us still believed in the Soviet Union, the Soviets had found that sending people who really cared, Komsomol members (above) and such like, to work the ice fields of Siberia (or whatever it was one did in Siberia) didn't really work. They were usually far too argumentative and and far too feeble for the heavy work and harsh climate. What worked much better was people who were just doing it for the money. Not quite like Clarkson, who also likes the attention, the notoriety and the glory.