hockeyflow33
Super Freak
Yeah, but it’s bull****. Sure, social media elevated political discourse. ****, it’s all anyone talks about these days, but here’s the thing: we’re the reason they make so much money. Not because we care who they are, but because we buy into the illusion of who they are, and, in the end, any disdain we might hold for the actors and athletes making millions of dollars need only be directed inward, because it’s our own fragility, and our prioritization of entertainment and escapism over all else that feeds this celebrity obsessed culture that we are all too quick to indemnify when it doesn’t go our own way.
Simply put: superheroes don’t do **** to save us. Movies, books, art; maybe it makes us human, but, in the grand scheme of things, it’s nothing more than wasted hours in an incredibly short life. I’m not looking down on anyone; quite the contrary, as I love this **** more than is probably healthy, but my point is that we seem to hold them to a different set of standards than everyone else because of their position while failing to recognize that they’re only in that position because we are all too happy to be entertained.
Everyone is held to that standard now. Every other day there's a headline of some business losing business or going under for making a political statement in either side.
Want to make $10,000,000 per year playing make believe? The trade off is you need to be vanilla to strangers.
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