Without their shows and stand-ups, and movies and athletic competitions, the shutdown has revealed how truly useless celebrities are to the national scene.
They're having a hard time accepting that as the other "pop-up" reaction to this, other than the piano commercials, has been celebrities doing videos non-stop from their homes.
Without their shows and stand-ups, and movies and athletic competitions, the shutdown has revealed how truly useless celebrities are to the national scene.
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“The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were idolized and treated as leaders; their opinions were sought on everything and they took themselves just as seriously — after all, if an athlete is paid a million or more a year, he knows he is important … so his opinions of foreign affairs and domestic policies must be important, too, even though he proves himself to be both ignorant and subliterate every time he opens his mouth. (Most of his fans were just as ignorant and unlettered; the disease was spreading.)”
― Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
(Hat tip to Thunder 6 for the find)