Comments | fpb: So maybe I am getting to be a grumpy old man

fpb

So maybe I am getting to be a grumpy old man

Feb 02, 2011 16:46

I guess maybe I sound like Disgusted from Tunbridge Wells. But I ask you ( Read more... )

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Just grumpy? eliskimo February 2 2011, 17:00:34 UTC

No, you're right.

ani_bester February 2 2011, 18:26:25 UTC

The sad thing is, this is a much shorter list than it could be.
People don't want their celebrities to be wrong, so they get away with all kinds of BS that we'd never tolerate from non-celebrities. It's disgusting. More so, disgusting that the court systems allow it.

I remember being envious when, in Japan, one of the members of one of the most popular bands was found with drugs. Not only was he removed from the band, all merchandise and cd's in which he took part were recalled and never re-sold, thus denying him royalties.

In Korea, the lead singer of the most lucrative boy band of the time got a DWI and the entire band was removed from the line up for the studios Christmas CD's.

In both cases, the pressure was on the studios to send a message even if it cost them. In the US and Europe, there just isn't that kind of moral outrage, and I don't know why.

fpb February 2 2011, 20:28:43 UTC

The fact is that I have gone not only for the most outrageous violations, but for those that really violate every contemporary PC principle. If there are three things that are supposed to be against every modern value, they are rape, paedophilia and violence against women. I am agnostic myself aboug drugs; I think outlawing them is wrong, though I don't approve of their use either and I never touched any. But there is hardly a pop singer, a Hollywood actor, or a right-on tv or radio personality who could not extemporize for half an hour about the awfulness of racism, paedophilia, rape, or violence against women. We are all supposed to feel the same, and personally I do. So why the get out of jail card - literally, in some cases - for celebrities who break these fundamental moral laws of our time? So far as I can tell, there is only one deadly sin in our time that brings immediate and untroubled condemnation, and it is having the words Sarah and Palin in your name.

starshipcat February 2 2011, 23:31:12 UTC

This sort of repulsiveness is why I've pretty much given up on the entire celebrity media industry. I haven't gone to a movie theater in years, I seldom watch any TV except the weather and the news (and even then I grab the remote at the first whiff of any sort of "entertainment" or "celebrity" news), and when I'm given a gift certificate to get music, I almost always use it on old favorites from my childhood, typically by people who either have slipped into obscurity or who have passed from this life without making a disgusting scene of themselves.

shezan February 4 2011, 01:09:20 UTC

Of course you're right.

Te lo dico io perché anonymous February 12 2011, 21:42:27 UTC

Doesn't make sense? I'll help. In year of our Lord (Jesus Christ who raised the dead), 2011, there is only one sin... and that is hypocrisy. So the artistes can do whatever they please, just as long as they don't preach.

In so many words, the easiest of all sins, has become the gravest. And the devil is laughing in the wings.

Chi e' che parla italiano? fpb February 12 2011, 22:41:58 UTC

I think, on a more mundane level, that the media have become dependent on the stories these people generate, and that if they were to treat them as pariahs as they ought, they would have to find other stories. So they keep on givin them get-out-of-jail-free cards.

Re: Chi e' che parla italiano? anonymous February 12 2011, 23:50:20 UTC

I found mention of you at VFR - Lawrence Auster's View from the Right, concerning the Military running Egypt since the days of Mamelukes... (my grandfather piemontese used to call me a "mamaluke" whenever I acted silly or looked doofy). I hypertexted and had the pleasure of reading your very interesting posts. So now you're bookmarked ( ... )

Re: Chi e' che parla italiano? fpb February 13 2011, 08:45:12 UTC

Actually, I see a big difference between Pollock and Duchamp and his descendants, although I would say - and I have said - that Pollock was the end of the road for Modernism and that after him there was nothing left to say or do in that direction. That is, in fact, just why the field was left to the poseurs and the gesture merchants. If you are interested in comics, get a copy of THE JACK KIRBY QUARTERLY #15 and read my article there.

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