““First, that fans — again, FANS! — are happy — HAPPY!? — that Star Wars is faring poorly. It’s like rooting for your own child to fail. It’s like hoping your own puppy falls down some steps. It’s so weird.”
And attacking your fans, calling them white supremacists, isn’t weird? It’s like taking a half a billion $$ and setting it ablaze.
He could have said a lot of different things to ‘criticize’ the fans, but he chose to call them White Supremacists. That, in my opinion, gives significant insight into what is going on in his head, and what he thinks about a significant number of the people who have made him wealthy. In reality, it is he who is the idiot, as he doesn’t even understand what made the Star Wars movies popular in the first place. He doesn’t seem to get it, but this hasn’t stopped him from looking down his nose and judging.
At some point in the course of our nation, people began to equate ‘intelligence’ and knowledge with whether or not a person acts in a specific way, and regurgitates a specific set of ‘acceptable’ opinions. What the self-proclaimed intelligentsia doesn’t understand is that knowing which utensil to use in a restaurant, what wine pairings are acceptable, the difference between Stilton and Gorgonzola, and spouting the same old sophomore year sociology beliefs and diatribes does not make you smarter, more creative, or your opinions more valid and valuable than those who work with their hands and can’t tell you what the plot of Othello is.
Speaking of kids, I would literally let my DVDS of Star Wars movies 1-6 burn in a house fire just to save my real children.