Posted on 03/08/2007 4:42:13 AM PST by Northern Alliance
From the thunderous applause and ovation received by Al Gore at the Oscars, one would have thought he was an aging actor who had finally received a long-awaited award for best actor. He wasn't.
Instead, what Gore provided for Hollywood and its members in the audience was validation. He made them feel good about themselves. So they applauded and cheered wildly. His award said that their attachment to the global-warming cause made them good people, enlightened, and ahead of the curve.
Never before in history has there been a greater collection of self-indulgent, self-righteous, comfort-seeking hedonists than what is now found in Hollywood. Their obsession with celebrity is over shadowed only by their immersion in foolishness and emotional immaturity. Having all things temporal, they are desperately in search of a purpose.
They awarded him so as to award themselves, and his acceptance verified that the man one-step away from the presidency was one of them. The courtship between Hollywood and D.C. politicians begun with the Clintons was sealed in marriage Oscar night with Gore as the bride and Hollywood as the groom.
All of us need validation from time to time. We want to feel good about ourselves. More than anything we crave purpose, to be part of something transcendent. Most of us find that purpose in patriotism, in religion, in wholesome family life, in sacrifice, and as bearers of tradition and timeless heritages.
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Hollywood's job is to entertain it's audience. Nothing more.
What an absolutely brilliant piece. I am sure like many others out there as a child you wished you could be a "movie star." I know I did. But as an adult in the real world looking at how shallow and really useless these people are, I wouldn't trade my life for the most famous or the most wealthy of them.
Thats all well and good, but they're still shiites!
IMO if you carved out a section of this country and compared their relative intelligence to the folks in Hollywood ,then Hollywood would come out on the stupid end of the scale.
Why is it these people who dont work for a living ,but play the parts of people who do work, think they are so intelligent because they can play act. They dont even have to make up their lines they are written out for them.
Interesting insight Northern Alliance.
The "star system" is fading away.Their supports and opinions
should be counterproductive or ignored.
Support from france(france actually looks like Hollywood)
"What an absolutely brilliant piece. I am sure like many others out there as a child you wished you could be a "movie star." I know I did. But as an adult in the real world looking at how shallow and really useless these people are, I wouldn't trade my life for the most famous or the most wealthy of them."
Most of them are'nt as wealthy as you'd think - many of them make about the same as the average manager at a corporation, they just get a lot of perks that makes them look like they live extravagent lifestyles. Just like rock stars, not many of them are millioniares, and even if they do have money, it's spent fast, thus the certain actors who just won't go away, or who were very big in movies but now are on tv shows or game shows.
It's entertainement. Most of them barely passed high school, and their level of intelligence is low. Anyone who looks to them for wisdom is a fool, as they rely on polling data more to craft their attitudes and opinions, or they rely on smarmy, lying press agents to speak for them.
When it comes down to it, if Brad Pitt never makes a movie again, it's not the end of the world, governments and society will not fall if Tom Cruise finally shuts up and goes away for good. The entertainment industry takes themselves entirely too seriously, and it's starting to annoy people - most people I know were disgusted that Al Gore won an award, and I don't know anyone who actually watched the show.
The cult of personality that is Hollywood disturbs me, but it will fall, eventually. I ignore the press, the tabloids, I don't watch tabloid tv, and I go to see few movies as most are garbage. Is my life poorer from not seeing these movies? Hah! It's BETTER.
300 does look like one hell of a movie, I'll go see that. It's the only movie I've wanted to see in a theater since King Kong.
See this thread before you spend $$$s on that movie.
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