How Entertainers Took Over The World And Why We Need An Exit Strategy

[dynasaw]

"Once upon a time, the entertainment industry was an industry that made entertainment. Its workforce was required to do quaint things such as show up to movie sets, or make music, or go to wild parties. Today, that brief has expanded slightly. It now includes proselytising for alien religions, trying to negotiate with the Taliban, getting photographed in a manner that basically constitutes an unsolicited gynaecology examination, and being brought in to fix the Iraqi refugee crisis. . .Time was when celebrities were wary of involving themselves in the complex hatreds of the region, perhaps acknowledging that the struggles of its politics were so labyrinthine and bloody that even an actor or a lead guitarist might have difficulty unravelling them. . .So thank pan-religious heavens that there now appears to be not a single tenuously famous individual with whom Israeli president Shimon Peres would not gladly hold bilateral talks." (i.e. Sharon Stone, Leonardo DiCapra et al)"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/mar/28/celebrities-public-figures-politics-aid


How in the hell did we get to be so celeb -fixated and why have we allowed them to permeate everything from politics to industry? :think:

[DainBramaged]

1. Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

They have as much right to political activism as we do, and since they have the money and notoriety they can pull it off. So what. Why attack Hollywood? And NO we aren't celebrity fixated, the Reich is................

[arcadian]

4. Thou doth protest to much

Celebrities are the syringes that deliver the opiate to the masses.

[cali]

2. what a stupid article.

[laruemtt]

3. i'm not as concerned about the prevalence

of celebrities and their opinions as i am of all our "news" channels aiming to become entertainment rather than hard-core news channels.

[xiamiam]

5. brought to you by the media ...nt