Are Performers Stupid?
25th January 2017
ZMan is not afraid to ask the rude questions.
Like most people, I just assume this is so, because actors tend to say stupid things when not following a script. The actress Meryl Streep took to the stage at some awards show to say Donald Trump gave her the sads. I’ve watched it a few times trying to figure out what it is she was trying to communicate. Streep is a great actress so it was well choreographed, but it contained nothing more than some hyperventilating about imagined bogeymen. My take away from watching it is that Mx. Streep is not spending her free time working math puzzles.
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The first thing that springs to mind is that you need a near total absence of self-respect to be a performer. It is, at best, a degrading way to make a living. Anyone who has stood in front of a crowd to give a speech knows it is not as easy as it looks. Imagine standing in front of cameras, pretending to be someone else, while a crowd of people watch you play make believe. Often times, the job requires the performer to make a fool of themselves or do degrading things for the amusement of the crowd. Most people will not do it.
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Most Americans have never been to Africa so they only know about the place from books and television. As a result, Americans talking about Africa sound like morons to people who have lived in Africa. This is the problem for performers. They talk about America as if it is a foreign country to them. That’s because it often is a foreign country. How much does Meryl Streep know about America at this stage of her life? She has been cooped up in a museum for decades. Death row inmates have a better feel for America than actors.
January 25th, 2017 at 08:29
Lefties see the world as they WANT it to be. Conservatives see the world as it is.
Remember when “Avatar” came out and people were having to be treated for depression because the world outside the theater was not like the one in the movie? It’s the Left’s crazy vision that makes them so very, very unhappy. The real world is never like the one they picture.
Lefties see homeless people and think all we need to do is give them a room and some food and all will be happy. Conservatives look at the same “homeless” and see schizophrenics and drug addicts. Lefties think the government creates money when they print it and they could fix all the worlds problems if the conservatives would just get out of the way. Conservatives understand that all that money comes out of their pockets.
With this in mind, it’s easy to see how so many actors are lefties. They don’t understand that real life is not an acting gig. On top of that, what did they spend their childhoods learning? Probably acting, maybe music. It’s pretty rare to find an actor who studied chemistry or engineering or law, or for that matter, one who had to have a real job (other than waitress). Dumb? Maybe, but under-educated most certainly.