Who are these Actors and other ‘Celebrities’ ?
Mainly actors, arent’ they? T.V., movies. Actors.
Lionized. Adored. Worshipped. Followed. Publicised. Why, why, why?
They are just ordinary people for the overwhelming majority. They have nothing special to say, no special understandings, no special insights, no special abilities, do nothing special.
They ACT ! What they do is not real. It is an ACT! They don’t do what you think they do! They just ACT as though they do.
And what is acting? Think about it. We all know something about it nowadays, after all these years, all this television.
Acting is largely a question of doing tiny little segments which get filmed and stuck together later.
We all know that.
You might do all the swimming scenes down on the beach and then all the talking scenes in the studio. In tiny segments. All the scenes supposed to occur over a period of months, or days or years or whatever – all done the same day!
That is: they don’t even look like doing what they are ‘acting’ they are doing.
For instance: acting at being a shop assistant.
If you ‘acted’ as a shop assistant you’d do the job for an hour, a day, a week or something, wouldn’t you?
But they don’t.
They maybe do a number of short takes filmed standing behind the counter in different poses.
Then they may do a couple of scenes talking to a customer across the counter.
They may do a scene pretending to put money in or out of a cash register.
AND THAT’S IT!
Nothing remotely like actually going through the working day or even a part of the working day of a shop assistant. Nothing like it.
After acting this scene a thousand times they’d still know nothing about being a shop assistant.
What they are is know-nothings! That’s what they are.
I just saw Bruce Willis invited on Jon Steward’s Daily Show.
That’s a show that had the President of the United States on it a while ago.
That’s amazing enough in itself, staggering in itself, bewildering in itself – what’s the President of the USA doing on a pathetic little comedy show like that?
Apparently it is about the best topical comedy parody and satire show the USA can muster. That and Colbert.
Which says something awesome about the state of the USA today.
But okay. That’s it. So it has the power to get the President of the USA on to it. Where he didn’t inspire me at any rate. But that’s another story.
You can see why a topical comedy would have the President there. It could have been a very significant thing. It maybe was. Maybe the very tepidity, the very uninspired nature of it was the most significant thing that has happened in American public affairs this month.
So have the President, yes.
But why Bruce Willis?
And he was treated with even more respect than the President.
Why? Is the world, our world, totally insane?
Well that’s ironic, if so, because Jon Steward just had a rally in the interests of a ‘return to sanity’ I think, didn’t he?
I wonder how it turned out?