Survivor - the chicken or the egg?

Question - If you are on an island, have a penis, and surrounded by girls, will it make you an imbecile? Or were you an imbecile to begin with? Not unlike the chicken and the egg, it's these rhetorical quandries that a girl could ponder for years and still not understand. Which of course brings us to last night's tribal council, and Eric's unbelievably idiotic decision to willingly hand over his immunity to Natalie. The same Natalie he had blatently screwed over after winning the reward challenge, and was lobbying for to get the boot. Mind boggling, I know.

Here's a quick breakdown of Eric's stupidity, and the genius he was up against. Open to Eric and Natalie, promising each other that of the two of them, whoever won the challenge would send the other to Exile to look for the idol. Cue Cirie, Amanda and Parv trying to figure out a way to use Eric to their advantage. Next to Amanda promising Eric to take him on the reward if she wins, and asking if he will do the same for her. He agrees. Then she talks him into sending Parv to Exile if he wins (preventing anyone else from finding the idol), which he also agrees to. Natalie who?

Eric did win the reward challenge, picked Amanda to go with him to a luxury spa, and sent Parv to Exile. Natalie? Really pissed. Cirie gets Nat back to camp and goes on and on about how Eric screwed Natalie over - "boy I'd be pissed if I were you..." Things are looking good for the ladies until Eric wins immunity. Desparate, the girls came up with a ridiculous plan to talk him into "redeeming himself" for his indescretions by handing over the necklace to Natalie at tribal. "you'll get more votes, everyone will trust you," etc., etc. I'm thinking no one is that stupid.

Once again, I was proven wrong. First off, the acting that was going on at tribal was impeccable. "You have to redeem yourself", "Actions speak louder than words", etc. etc. Then Jeff asks the obligatory question, does Eric want to keep his individual immunity. Eric gives a heart-warming liturgy about redeeming himself and hands it over to Nat. Are you kidding me?! That's 4 males in 4 weeks who had immunity and pissed it away. The best part of this might have been the jury's reaction to this astonishing act of stupidity. Not surprisingly Eric was shown the door, after every single one of those girls voted his ass out. James could barely contain himself from the jury, declaring he was no longer "the dumbest Survivor ever". No James, just one of the four dumbest ever.

Jeff Probst called it a life lesson. I call it fucking hilarious.