[Trash-talk] political band?

Alan Hoppe achoppe at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 19 13:39:26 PST 2003


oh no .. i'm feeling a ramble coming on .. i hope it doesn't suck the oxygen
out of the room.

on the one hand, it can taken as an inspiration to be couragious and stand
up for what you believe in / voice your opinion unafraid - from the
standpoint that as a celebrity, you are a "product" and your "company"
stands to loose a lot if your "buyers" deem you in a bad light and switch
brands. from that standpoint, there is more for someone to lose for speaking
out about a controversial issue than someone who can do so with a greater
deal of anonymity.

but then, on another hand, celebrities don't necessarily have the same
insight into a topic that an "expert" might, so it's possibly "dangerous"
for someone to speak out and have others support their views based on the
celebrity appeal factor.

i mean, after all, when shirley says JUMP i say HOW HIGH, LITTLE LADY? and
so i am quite guilty of that, haha, this is the non-serious paragraph, bill
:P

and of course, there are tons of other tangents that i cannot think of
offhand - this is a loaded topic. i know my dad flips out whenever a show
like 'entertainment tonight' comes on, because he thinks there's way too
much focus on celebrity .. and so i was kidding him, saying "hey, are you
going to watch ET tonight? they're doing a report on 'will the war cause
celebrities to stop filming things overseas?' ... "

i mean, despite what i was saying about celebrities speaking out being a
form of inspiration for others to not be afraid to voice their views, this
can be contrasted by those activists who aren't using any celebrity status
and get killed for what they believe in, or those innocent civilians who are
caught up in a war and will soon die. if more time was spent focusing on
that, and not 'what do the actors from the west wing think about the war? i
need to know' than there'd be a more sobering balance of this truly fucked
up world.

all of these points are valid and since D2 said i am "the fixer" (IE mafia
TT silliness posts from long ago) than i am just popping up and doing my
thing.

on an emotional landslide, in physical terms. whatever that means.

-Alan-




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