Whores, actors, and dittoheads
Once upon a time, actors and performers were considered no better than prostitutes. No sane or respectable person would ever imagined putting a prostitute behind a microphone to hold forth on matters of public policy, and the idea of listening to an actor do the same would have been only slightly less ridiculous. As in many other instances, we have ignored the wisdom of the past.
No particular outrage sparked this rumination, though I am sure if I looked, sometime in the last day or so, some celebrity has said something tragically ignorant or wrong-headed or offensive. If it's Alec Baldwin, he usually gets a trifecta and covers all three. (Googling… Googling… hey, today its Madonna.) You may be thinking, hey, Buckethead, you just don't like it 'cause they're all liberals and shit. Well, that plays a role, to be sure. Ignorant liberal ranting is in fact more annoying to me than ignorant conservative ranting. I hate celebrities holding forth on policy issues for precisely the same reason I hate call in talk shows. Ignorance.
If I am going to waste my time listening to someone else's opinion, I should like that opinion to be the finely honed product of a mind that has spent years, preferably decades, thinking deeply on the problem. That opinion should be a balance of hard-earned knowledge, relevant experience, nice judgment with a leavening of insight and authentic genius. That is very nearly the exact opposite of what I get listening to Tim Robbins, or some random jackhole who wants to hear his voice on the talkybox and can't be bothered to turn it off when he goes on air.
Everyone has the right to an opinion, and the right to say it. But not everyone's opinion is worth listening to. Including mine. However, I don't have Angelina Jolie's lips, chest or hips, so people aren't exactly breaking down my door for interviews. Despite the fact that those (exquisitely formed) body parts and an ability to make faces at the camera are her sole qualifications for media access to talk about whatever flits through her empty head.
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she does "put her money,
she does "put her money, where her mouth is"....
"Once upon a time, actors and
"Once upon a time, actors and performers were considered no better than prostitutes"
Very interesting. You know, that was the best bit of Team America: that it was actors who were not only America's nemesis(es?), but also America's savior. That was where the rubber met the road on the WoT- actors.
You know, it wasn't that long ago when doctors were considered little more than nominally helpful hucksters. On their best day. And while lawyers have always been universally loathed, up until about living memory it was poor form to advertise; there was at least some sense of decorous behavior.
Yet today, doctors and lawyers are among the most respected professionals in our society.
Makes me wonder what will be the relevant, important careers in a hundred years hence. Fisherman? Water purifier? Mullah?
Farmer, GL. (Non-subsidy
Farmer, GL. (Non-subsidy-accepting) Farmer.
Well, following the same arc,
Well, following the same arc, but a little bit behind, its clear that the respected profession of 2106 will be whore.
For some reason, I just like
For some reason, I just like the sound of the word "whore."
Whore.
Whore.
Especially if you imagine a Johnny Cash style pronunciation, with a little bit of "u" mixed in with the "o" - Whuor. Just a little bit.
"Whuoor"
I'm hip. It's a great
I'm hip. It's a great sounding word, divorced from its meaning.
You know what I like too? "Usufructuary". Give it a shot.