I’ve been wanting to write about Brad and Angelina breaking up, all the drama to be found there, and the endless foolishness of pop culture, but I just haven’t had the stomach for it. The foibles of the fancy people, the lifestyles of the rich and famous, are really quite boring and predictable.
I used to admire wealth, fame, success, or at least believe these to be desirable things, the beautiful people, the lucky ones, goals to strive for. It’s a shame that our Western culture teaches us to value these things, to equate wealth with status, to define beauty in an exclusively physical sense, and to somehow use these things as a measure of what is moral, pure, and good.
In our crazy, upside down world, we actually promote this idea that the poor, the little people, are immoral, crime ridden cesspools, lacking beauty, while the fancy folk are all noble, honorable. That is such a deception, one that must completely disregard the fact that some 98% of us actually are the little people.
Not only are the beautiful people noble, honorable, but they Know Stuff, we assume they’re smart. That is why someone who has made their living as an actor, a celebrity, is now qualified to instruct the rest of us on the finer things, like politics, culture, and love. In truth the vast majority of them are dumber than a box of rocks and should probably not be left alone to boil an egg, but they do have a platform, a voice. Everybody listens when Brad or Angelina say something, which is foolish because we are giving weight to someone’s words, based on culture and not wisdom.
It never ceases to surprise me, the irony, the obvious truth before us that we as a culture can just ignore. At the moment we have two political candidates, the epitome of wealth of fame, the beautiful people….who also have a long track record of corruption, perversion, and immorality that would have landed any one of us little people in jail. These two dark horses, flit about the country promising to save and protect us from the crime ridden, broken dysfunction of….. the little people. The ugly ones, the immoral, people too stupid to solve their own problems, us, ourselves.
I’m easily misunderstood when I say, some 98% of us are the little people, as if I must be an Occupier or a Marxist trying to redistribute the wealth, or someone who wants to eat the rich, but it isn’t that at all, it isn’t really about money at all, it’s about virtue, wisdom, and common sense, and the way we’ve already redistributed those and handed them off to Bradgelina for safe keeping.
Who?
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Good for you, Mike. Just stay in the bubble, I’ll tell you when it’s safe to come out. 🙂
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Good for you, for writing what many of us think,
but you have a great way with words, and the
intelligence to say them in a way to cause others to think
hopefully.
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Thank you for your kind words and for your encouragement. It is much appreciated.
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What’s even more irritating is when these famous people are famous for……..being famous! I think that started with Paris Hilton (flashback!). I abhor finding out what cause célèbre my favorite artists support, and worse yet, reading the silly things that they say about them. Sean Penn, anyone?
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I so hear you! A few times I have absolutely fallen in love with a musician or an actor…and than he has to go and open his mouth and ruin everything. 🙂
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obviously after spending the day at Dads, I’m playing catch up in bogland…
so again, I say…Amen…that is from one little person to another 😉
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I loved this post! It made me laugh out loud (in a good way). I’d rather stay in the 98% The other 2% are downright scary!!
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Thank you. I know, right? Some of those 2 percenters are downright scary. 🙂
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I don’t have much admiration for the ‘famous’ unless they do something wonderful. When I heard that J. K. Rowling’s gave away so many of her billions to the poor and charities, so much given away that she was no longer in the “”top ten richest persons in the world list”” ~ I did muster up some admiration for her act- and wonderment that none of the other 9 persons on the top ten richest persons had thought to do the same. Same for Angelina, who gives away 1/3 rd of her earnings to the poor. For that act, she has won a place in my heart and prayers. But no more than others who aren’t famous, who can’t give as much as she, but are generous in their own right. Then I must look inward, and think, what is it that I can give, that I too can do a kind deed…
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very intelligent post
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Sorry, but it was doomed from the start. One could hope, but there is this thing called reality. 😉
But the beautiful people…………is a catch phrase, an image with no meat on the bones. Am I sure? Yep.
To borrow your words: boring and predictable. Sure, lots of eye candy, but its the darn packaging. One could choke on such sweetness.
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LOL, yes,one could choke on such sweetness, but it’s just empty calories, no real sustenance to be found there.:)
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Ha true, but I must admit to the delight of an occasional apricot cookie or two….or three………. 😉
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You know I was actually thinking their relationship was going to last unlike other celebrity marriages…but I was mistaken.
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Did you really? One problem for them is that they both left their other relationships for one another. Often when you’re in a marriage but seeing other people that’s a pattern that’s going to repeat itself. I’m sure there is an exception somewhere, but for the most part we people tend to just replay our own scripts with new people.
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That’s true; I don’t know why I thought that…maybe its because I was hoping that in the world of Hollywood with broken marriages…something would work for the sake of the kids.
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