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Good post. I think the folks in Hollywood are certainly contaminated with that mystifying hatred of the system and country that has made them all rich, but I also think a lot of it is simple stupidity. They seriously believe that they are "artists," and of course art, as defined by contemporary intellectual society, has to reject all values and exalt the "transgressive." Strangely enough, though, this is something one can afford to do only in a decent, stable society: it's a luxury. I think that the threat to this society may actually make some of them - the handful with brains, at any rate - reconsider some of the "artistic" stupidity that has become practically like the air they breathe in their Hollywood circle.