Posted on 03/01/2005 9:05:26 PM PST by CHARLITE
What about athletes? I count them as more my heroes than actors and muscians. Although I'm not scared to admit I look up to some rock stars for the amount of substances they can ingest and live.
It is hard to admire generals when it seems wars are won by technology. It is hard to admire scientists when their contributions are team efforts. You cannot single out one who is the one who created something.
In my opinion, this is a stunning indictment of "all that glitters." The subject needs to be highlighted. Thanks to this insightful Rabbi, and many other good writers recently, the mask of "desperately seeking fame & glory" is being pierced and exposed.
The Academy's a wort. I knew that! {;>)]
I'd say that's being rather generous, but he does make a good point.
I think the trend that you're talking about can be seen in the glorification of figures like Mae West. However, I think that if you ask most Americans who the big stars were 20 years ago, they wouldn't even remember their names.
Interesting, isn't it, that technology is also the force that raised entertainers (I'll throw athletes into that category) to "hero" status? I hadn't thought about how the Information Age has transformed our society in this aspect, but this article has caused me to do just that.
Compare the decadence and demise of the Roman Empire against what we are experiencing today at the hands of leftist fools, drunk on the wine of 'success',, imo ... uncanny.
Thanks for the post.
Actually there are many single creaters that have created much around us. It is simply no one cares to know about it.
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In recent times? Obviously Edison is held up, but other inventors are forgotten in a group. Of course there are some like Bll Gates and Steve Jobs who become stars in their own worlds.
Which one are you...Beavis or Butthead?
Butthead, I always found him to be the smarter one.
"Show Biz kids, making movies of themselves..." Steely Dan had it right.
That's why President George W. Bush was voted "the worst actor." He's real. Popular culture promoted by the mainstream media offers the phony as the real and the real as phony. That which is false is revered, celebrated and rewarded while that which is authentic is undermined, discredited, disrespected.
The mark of their achievement is in convincing us that the worthless is great and good and the highest striving of humanity.
Uh, we're talking about just movies here, right?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1353564/posts?page=1
Excerpt:
"This brings us to the Academy Awards of Sunday night. If you watched them, you already know that the films Hollywood chose to honor had little to do with quality and everything to do with philosophy and worldview. As Christian film critic Barbara Nicolosi acerbically put it, Hollywood’s choices affirm, once again, “just how very, very sick America’s storytellers have become.”
Several awards, including Best Picture, went to Million Dollar Baby, a film that promotes euthanasia. Five Oscars went to The Aviator, a film that celebrates billionaire Howard Hughes, the man who bedded dozens of starlets, made unwelcome advances to many others, and ultimately died of syphilis-induced insanity.
Oh, and then there’s the nasty little film called Sideways. This film suggests that it’s fine—even funny—for a man to engage in an orgy of sex with strangers just before his wedding. That got an award, too. Films that were nominated, but did not receive awards, included one intended as a warning against making abortion illegal, and one that celebrates Kinsey, a twisted researcher whose now-discredited theories continue to degrade America’s view of sexuality. Meanwhile, one of the greatest films ever made, one of the biggest box-office hits of the year, worldwide, and the biggest independent film in the history of the world—that is, The Passion of the Christ—was ignored."
........and uh, yes, durasell, we're talking about just movies here........or anything else which has been culturally deteriorating, besides movies.......like, say......rap "music."
Here's the link to Colson's original Breakpoint article:
The Academy Awards....What's that????
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