I had first notice of this quote from Heinlein from a post by another Freeper on another thread not too many days ago.
It is from Robert Heinlein’s last novel - To Sail Beyond The Sunset, written in 1987:
“But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. 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. ”
http://wilcfry.com/blogs/verily/archives/1700
And the Alerods of the world WANT the sheeple to listen to Hanks.
And the Axelrods of the world WANT the sheeple to listen to Hanks.
Hollywood is perfect. Full of tools so dumb and blackmailable in so many ways because they want stardom and worship MORE THAN THEY WANT TO BREATHE.