For example, if you said something the other day and now say something different, then you run the risk of being caught flipping the script, i.e. lying. Either what your said the other day was true, or what you’re saying now is not true. The conflicting statements cannot both be true – something has to give.
Or if a weaker team beat a stronger team in sports, it’s called an upset, an unexpected win for the underdogs. In this case, the underdog or the weaker team has flipped the script on their opponents.
To summarize, and to use a theater term again, we each are assigned a role in life and are supposed to act accordingly. If we flip the script, then we are ignoring the proverbial script governing our lives and starting doing things unexpected of us.
For better or worse, in that case, is for you to decide. What’s for sure is that other people will be in great shock to witness this change of, well, theater terminology one more time, character.
All right?
All right. Now, recent media examples to help us further bring the point home:
1. Trevor Noah flipped the script on the Ferguson Effect, a supposed phenomenon that shows police are not enforcing laws because they’re afraid of being captured on video and going viral for their actions, on Monday’s episode of “The Daily Show.”
“People claim the police are unable to do their jobs because they’re afraid of getting caught doing their jobs badly. And this is a big problem, unless you deal in facts, in which case it’s not actually a problem,” Noah said, before citing a recent study that concluded it was too soon to blame any uptick in violent crime on Ferguson when crime has been dropping for two decades.
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