It sucks because you want to believe these guys are just kinda chill and friendly and fun hangs. Instead, they come out as these vulgar, hateful assholes who have absolutely drowned themselves in some cult’s kool-aid.
I don’t need everyone to be a savant, but I would like them to get along and not spew obvious hate at the top of their lungs at every opportunity.
The Trump era has outed quite a few celebrities as trashcan people.
I have exactly zero sympathy or patience for someone in a position of influence that uses that influence to peddle lies/misinformation. Kevin Sorbo can go fuck himself.
I’ve read a bit on Scientology, and it definitely looks like there’s a Himbo-to-Humbug pipeline in Hollywood. You’ve got people who enter the system as good-natured pretty know-nothings, only to have their brains turned absolutely inside out by
No better example of this than conservative mega-saint Ronald Reagan, himself. He came in happy enough to latch on to the leftist unionizing and organizing popular in SoCal at the time, then flipped a full 180° once he got swallowed up by the conservative media ecosystem. Bunch of 80s comedians took that route as well - going in as blue collar types deeply critical of the institutions of capitalism, then coming out as fire-breathing religious die-hards once their tickets got punched.
Hell, look at the J. K. Rowling arc. Becoming a billionaire celebrity author absolutely pickled her brain.
Yeah. I can only imagine the mindfuck that could happen after becoming fabulously rich and famous. But I believe if you come out of it the way Sorbo and the people you mentioned did, you were weak-minded going in. That happy, innocent weak-minded that can easily warp into miserable, malicious weak-minded.
And I don’t want anyone implying that someone who is weak-minded could never elevate to the presidency, because I’ll direct them to the bumbling felon and rapist about to be sworn in.
I consider it more of a selection bias. The people who get elevated from minor celebrity schmoe to billionaire hate-monger have to pass through a series of filters operated by the worst people you can imagine.
If J.K.Rowling wasn’t willing to embrace being a colossal piece of shit, somebody else’s children’s book about wizards would have gotten the budget for blockbuster films. Alternatively, her editor/publisher would have ripped her off and she’d be one more “Author who got swindled by the big mean corporate raiders” sob story.
But she passed the tests. She learned who to suck up to and who to flatter and who to denegrate. So the financial kingpins gave her the limitless money credit card and invited her to the Epstein Island Party. And now all she has to do is keep being a hateful shit online to keep her pride of place, which gets easier and easier to do the longer you’ve been at it.
It sucks because you want to believe these guys are just kinda chill and friendly and fun hangs. Instead, they come out as these vulgar, hateful assholes who have absolutely drowned themselves in some cult’s kool-aid.
I don’t need everyone to be a savant, but I would like them to get along and not spew obvious hate at the top of their lungs at every opportunity.
The Trump era has outed quite a few celebrities as trashcan people.
I have exactly zero sympathy or patience for someone in a position of influence that uses that influence to peddle lies/misinformation. Kevin Sorbo can go fuck himself.
I’ve read a bit on Scientology, and it definitely looks like there’s a Himbo-to-Humbug pipeline in Hollywood. You’ve got people who enter the system as good-natured pretty know-nothings, only to have their brains turned absolutely inside out by
No better example of this than conservative mega-saint Ronald Reagan, himself. He came in happy enough to latch on to the leftist unionizing and organizing popular in SoCal at the time, then flipped a full 180° once he got swallowed up by the conservative media ecosystem. Bunch of 80s comedians took that route as well - going in as blue collar types deeply critical of the institutions of capitalism, then coming out as fire-breathing religious die-hards once their tickets got punched.
Hell, look at the J. K. Rowling arc. Becoming a billionaire celebrity author absolutely pickled her brain.
Yeah. I can only imagine the mindfuck that could happen after becoming fabulously rich and famous. But I believe if you come out of it the way Sorbo and the people you mentioned did, you were weak-minded going in. That happy, innocent weak-minded that can easily warp into miserable, malicious weak-minded.
And I don’t want anyone implying that someone who is weak-minded could never elevate to the presidency, because I’ll direct them to the bumbling felon and rapist about to be sworn in.
I guess it’s probably chicken and egg when it comes to morals and money, but they do say that power corrupts for a reason.
I consider it more of a selection bias. The people who get elevated from minor celebrity schmoe to billionaire hate-monger have to pass through a series of filters operated by the worst people you can imagine.
If J.K.Rowling wasn’t willing to embrace being a colossal piece of shit, somebody else’s children’s book about wizards would have gotten the budget for blockbuster films. Alternatively, her editor/publisher would have ripped her off and she’d be one more “Author who got swindled by the big mean corporate raiders” sob story.
But she passed the tests. She learned who to suck up to and who to flatter and who to denegrate. So the financial kingpins gave her the limitless money credit card and invited her to the Epstein Island Party. And now all she has to do is keep being a hateful shit online to keep her pride of place, which gets easier and easier to do the longer you’ve been at it.