I LOVE IT..................
Anyone else sick and tired of the cheapness of the word "courage" when Hollywood use it to describe themselves, when they spew garbage like, "Oh, he was so 'courageous' to make a film like that."
Yadda, yadda, yadda.
Ben Stein gets it.
Yadda, yadda, yadda.
Ben Stein gets it.
"Hollywood is...about self: self-congratulation, self-promotion, and above all, self-protection. This is human and basic, but let's not kid ourselves. There is no greatness there in the Kodak Theater. The greatness is on patrol in Kirkuk. The greatness lies unable to sleep worrying about her man in Mosul. The greatness sleeps at Arlington National Cemetery and lies waiting for death in VA Hospitals. God help us that we have sunk so low as to confuse foolish and petty boasting with the real courage that keeps this nation and the many fools in it alive and flourishing on national TV."Right on, Ben!
posted by HeavyHanded at
11:48 AM
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Yes and, like George Clooney, they commit their 'courageous' acts by exercising their freedom of speech in a safe venue that is specifically self-congratulatory by an industry that receives compensation out of all proportion to its contribution to either the welfare or defense of the country and by criticizing the very policies that maintain that freedom and that others now stand in harms way to protect.
Exercising freedoms that others die to protect is not courage; it is privilege.
Criticizing those who’s policies and actions provide you the freedom to criticise them is not courage; it is ingratitude.
Proclaiming yourself to be courageous is not courage; it is conceit.
Standing before an adoring crowd espousing views that you and they hold in common is not courage; it is groveling.
I have known courageous people in my time and none of them ever felt compelled to point their courage out to me. But then, neither did any of them generate their own forum in which to do so by pompously assuming I should be as fasinated as they to see them confer awards on each other.
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Anonymous, at 9:04 AM
Well said anotmo. I cannot find much to like about Hollywood. Not much at all. They don't understand humility. They don't even know how to spell it. And quite likely, don't know the word even exists.
George Clooney and his fellow elitist friends think they are ahead of the curve on social issues - talk about living in a bubble.
These people are shallow, shameless fools that have nothing and offer nothing that I can benefit from.
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HeavyHanded, at 9:51 AM
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