Quote of the day–Tamara K.

…We circle back around to one of the big problems in our society, which is the idea that line-memorizing clothes horses have anything more valid to say about politics, science, or current events than the hippie on the street corner with a guitar case. The Romans had the right position in society for actors: Above cesspit cleaners, but not as well-respected as a decent whore.

Tamara K.
November 3, 2009
Shame!
[This reminds me of a Robert Heinlein quote:

A whore should be judged by the same criteria as other professionals offering services for pay–such as dentists, lawyers, hairdressers, physicians, plumbers, etc. Is she professionally competent? Does she give good measure? Is she honest with her clients?

It is possible that the percentage of honest and competent whores is higher than that of plumbers and much higher than that of lawyers. And enormously higher than that of professors.

Lazarus Long
A character in several books by Robert Heinlein.

Getting back to Tamara’s quote…

The problem is that people are still largely driven by some evolutionary advantageous urge to listen to and obey those whose faces are familiar rather than actually think for themselves. But of course that presumes said person is capable of and willing to think for themselves. I’m not convinced the majority of people are up to the task yet we protect them from their own stupidity almost as if they were children who would grow up someday. I sometimes see a future where the system collapses and Darwin collects on a massive debt we have been accumulating for the last 100 years. It would have been far, far better in so many ways to pay off Darwin in regular installments than to have the Grim Reaper swing his scythe in such a broad swath as I sometimes see as plausible.–Joe]

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  1. I find it interesting that, while we’re expected to listen to leftist actors and musicians on political matters, we’re also asked to discount some people like Glen Beck and Limbaugh on the grounds that they are “just entertainers”. We now have actual entertainers telling us to listen to them, but to ignore conservative commentators on the grounds that they’re entertainers.

    If this is a trend (it’s been going on now for several years) it is one that works in our favor. It means that the Left is abandoning their obsessive attachment (in rhetoric at least) to actor/activists and to musician/activists, whether they themselves recognize it or not. They can’t for long expect us to listen to their entertainers while ignoring our entertainers on the basis they are mere entertainers. This gets dangerously (for them) close to demanding that we look only at principles and facts while taking what pundits and celebrities say with a healthy grain of salt. That would be the undoing of the Left, which is founded substantially on the cult of personality.

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