Be better, get a job. Plenty of kneelers still playing.
He thinks he would have been a star if only they didn’t discriminate against him for being like Tom Paine and Samuel Adams.
How do you prove that?
Norman Mailer kept having to pay huge divorce awards and alimony settlements when his wives convinced judges that they were kept down at home in the kitchen and bedroom as wife to Mailer instead of building careers aspiring actresses instead of getting married and raising children.
Mailer said:” It is such a shame the American public has been deprived of the chance to see the incredible stardom on Broadway and in Hollywood of all these ex-wives.”
He lost each time and paid based on potential earnings the lawyers said the women might have made. He wrote the nonfiction anti-affirmative action classic The Prisoner of Sex (highly recommended) due to that.