Why Leftist Hollywood Loves Dictators
by John NolteSomeone asked a great question the other day: Why is leftist Hollywood so enamored with dictators and socialism? You would think they would fear having their artistic expression stifled under a Castro or having all their wealth confiscated under Hugo’s socialist or communist regime. It seems counter-intuitive, no…? That’s a damn good question but erroneously based on the premise that we’re discussing normal people.
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When you and I picture life under Obama’s vision for America, we see a dreary existence spent in breadlines, drab apartments and small jail cells with rat cages strapped to our face conditioning us to say “Herstory” instead of “History.” These Castro-lovers and Polanski-defenders see something completely different.
Watch “The Lives of Others.” Not only is it one of the best films of the decade, it also answers the opening question. You’ll see how life under fascism is the complete fulfillment of every narcissistic desire Susan Sarandon, Barbra Streisand, Oliver Stone, Sean Penn and the rest of their sorry lot has ever had.
Leftist Hollywood is not driven by wealth or artistic freedom, they’re driven by status and the insatiable need to be unconditionally adored. Unfortunately for them, as actors in America, status and adoration is tied to awards and the size of the paycheck – in other words competition and a free market – which they hate. But that’s the least of their worries. All this messy American capitalism forces our favorite artistes into the undignified position of having to beg for money in order to have the millions necessary to watch themselves be all artistic on the big screen, and all this messy American free expression allows people like you and me to criticize and ridicule their hard self-serving work.
Not so under a dictatorship.
The way they see it, with the right dictator, the State would hand them money for film projects and jail anyone who criticized them in print or elsewhere. Hugo Chavez shutting television stations down doesn’t horrify Leftist Hollywood, it makes them giddy.
Certainly the days of the $20 million pay check and multiple homes would be over, but that would come as a relief because status wouldn’t be tied to uncontrollable market forces. There would be no more stressing all weekend hoping those idiot hicks in Middle America make it a box office hit. As long as the State was happy with the product, the State would hand out status like welfare checks in the form of dinner parties, awards, nice apartments and “important” projects.
But what about artistic freedom, you might ask…
These Leftists enjoy complete artistic freedom now and what do they do with it? They flack for the state, undermine liberty and trash religion. All any fascist dictator would have to say is, “Carry on.”
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a favourite story…
Chevy Chase on meeting Castro: "Commandante! I have seen the future of socialism and it works!" He then returned to his estate in The Hamptons and parked his Benz in the semi-circular driveway with the five other autos he owned…
Can you spell 'hypocrite'? I knew you could…
John,
While I agree with your point on celebrities needing status and constant "relevance" to feel validated, I don't think that 99% of the fascism-supporting Hollywooders have the level of understanding and forethought that you credit them. When I see celebrities interviewed on talk shows or when I look at how they live their lives off-screen, I have always been struck by their complete inability to grasp cause/effect relationships. They all seem driven completely by impulse and emotion (which may be exactly what makes them effective on screen) This is why they hate responsibility, this is why they endorse silly causes, this is why they got caught up most fervently in Obamamania, ans this is why they so frequently engage in destructive and addictive habits.
….then, why do celebrities embrace dictators? I think it is just because dictators are foreign, wacky, dangerous, and "edgy". Oh, and they have fabulous wardrobes.
Maybe I simplify it too much, but I think that the Hollywood Leftie crowd embraces these international thugs in what they see as an act of rebellion. Even the Hollylibs Baby Boomers, now in their 60's, still seem to have serious mommy/daddy issues, and I think they project these issues on to "Middle America" – which they see as conservative, strict, responsible, and boring – just like their parents.
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Bravo, John. You are spot on.
Eliminate the competition. It has been noted that many people on Wall Street vote Democrat and prefer government intervention. This is about control of a commodity, sometimes it monetary and economic policy, through political pandering, sometimes it is the control of information. Maybe I'm extra cynical tonight, but "all animals are equal, some are more equal than others" It is about preferential placement at the trough. "Carry on", oink, oink.
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Geez! Whoda thunk it? Oliver Stoner wearing a red tie.
That 5h1t5t1ck may have conned the country into believing that his movies, starting with "Platoon," were the 'real deal' about Viet Nam, etc., but those of us who were also there think he's full of 5h1t.
I've had moderate success explaining to folks that gulping his Koolaid and imagining that they might get an idea of what it was like over there is decadent in the extreme.
"JFK" is yet another celluloid canard perpetrated on us to advance what has turned out to be his real agenda. Someone with a forensic accounting background ought to check out who his real backers are.
History has shown that the first people to be sent to "re-education camps" under dictators and despots are, artist, educators, homosexauls and intellectuals.
At least the ones that didn't play the game. Because history has also shown that there is a need for patsies to proffer the propaganda.
Not only are Hollywood leftists enamored of dictators, more than a few in the current administration carry a torch for them as well.
Probably the biggest 'name' of the "I never met a dictator I didn't like" crowd is Jimmy Carter.
What is there about democrats and liberals…? (Sorry — redundancy)
Feckless celebrities, too much money in the pockets of uneducated trash, love dictators, too much power in the hands of thuggish uneducated trash, because there is a gravitational magnetism between narcissists. The adoration of the little people in both camps isn't satisfy enough. Special people can only be understood by other special people. It's a feature of the narcissistic disorder in the DSM IV.
Preening, bowing, prattling Obama is the classic narcissist. So are most of the jackasses on the airwaves.
They are high maintanence little creeps too.
John hit the nail on the head, as usual.
Leftists, of course, would frame the issue differently. They would say they would create films and books that support "the common good," or "the greater good," or "economic justice," or "Progressive values." Anyone who criticizes these films or books would not be arrested and jailed for critisizing the filmmaker or author, you see. They would be arrested and jailed for opposing "the common good" and "Progress." This, of course, is "social justice."
It's coming. Trust me, it's coming. Someone should be making a film about what life will be like in 2030. Before such films are declared hate speech.
It is like some sick symbiosis, the need of celebrities to be celebrated by world leaders, even if they are dictators and tyrants. In turn the dictators and tyrants have their famous useful idiots to parade around to help propagandize their wonderful utopias. All you need is a fawning press breathlessly reporting this cuddle-fest to the world.
Effing Brilliant. Spot on. 100% accurate.
"That’s a damn good question but erroneously based on the premise that we’re discussing normal people."
John's great. These people. (Sigh)
Spiro. Excellent points too. When I listen(ed) to some of these jokers I was so absolutely dumbfounded just HOW under informed. Their battle cries and mantras fall into the "you really just didn't say what I think you just said" category. A complete absence of history or not an ounce of logic.
The ones that John refers to should know better.
The ones that you refer to don't know any better. And – more than likely – they are where they are not because they were 'head and shoulders' above the other 'actors' who didn't make it so well. Probably the work below 'head and shoulders' is where they shined. (wink)
"The Lives of Others" is a great film! I'm glad you mentioned it as it really frames the insidiousness of living under a communists regime, who's tentacles are wrapped around every facet of your waking life. Thanks John.
This makes so much sense to me!
Artists are known as useful idiots to dictators.
Extremely well put John.
LIberals are mentally ill and intellectually dishonest. I can't see any other explanation. Have you seen any of them move to Cuba, China, Venezuela or any other commie or socialist Hell hole lately? I didn't think so. Me neither.
Well let's see here
Hollyweird actors are megalomaniac, power-crazy, self-important.
Dictators are tyrannical.
Sound like a match made in hell.
You're right Mr Nolte, they aren't normal. They're Abby, Abby Normal.
Who cares about artistic freedom when you don't have artistic talent?
Want to know what my PSYCHO analysis is of lefties who love Dictators is? I think that they all suffer from a form of self loathing and a lack of REAL love in their lives. I mean just look at how many of them go through several marriages, that right there proves that they don't know HOW to love so therefore, none of them are capable of GIVING love. So what this all means is that since they all, usually, marry one of their own then they never GET love. So they turn to these dictators who fawn all over them, tell them how great they are etc etc..Feeding their egos, because the dictators are the SAME way so they KNOW how to schmooze. So in essence these celebs look at the tyrants as father figures. That's my NON professional analysis.
Did that make any kind of sense at all? 
It will be a "state-sponsored" artistic talent, and you will appreciate it or you will be re-educated. Hmm. How about, "I will not go silently into tyranny."
Four Legs Good!
Two Legs Better!
Bleat! Bleat!
There's an element you are missing with this article. People of the Left have a thirst on for power. They crave it. They seek it with a passion that permeates their existence. Dictators and tyrants wield power on a level that all leftist wished they had. Since they can't, they will settle for praising them and mocking those of us who do not buy into their crap. Since we're obviously too unsophisticated and unenlightened to understand them.
typo: "…of the Left have a thirst for power."
I think that it is becasue under a dictatorship when all the actors gt together to decide that meat is murder and people shuld no longer eat beef or whatever else the I will control you life fad of the week is that they are touting then they will have the power to see it enforced.
While there may be a few true believers in the crowd, the vast majority of Hollywood celebs would rather die than give up their jet-setting lifestyles. They might cheer for dictators because they're too clueless to understand, or because they believe it could never happen in America (so are trying to accrue credit for something they believe to be a waste of time), but if you believe Jay Leno is going to give up his car collection, Al Gore will give up his mansion, or Johnny Depp will give away his fortune (which just got $35 million higher with the new Pirates addition), I think you don't know celebs as well as you think you do.
Yes, but in Chevy's case, Socialism might work. Since he has no talent and is too miserable for anyone to want to watch, Government interference is his only hope of returning to stardom.
I second that. Excellent film!
Thanks to all for the answer: elimination of competition.
That explains why so many leftists, not just celebrities, embrace tyrants.
The question has puzzled me for years.
The "artists" love dictators because they get to hop back on their comfortable jets and come back to the good ole USA. Does anyone notice that these clowns love to visit a social paradise just long enough for a photo op but never choose to move there. That says it all!!!
Under any totalitarian regime, there are two classes of citizens. There are the elite and there are "the masses". The liberal always thinks of himself as one of the elite. When he promotes government programs, such as national health care, he believes that these programs are for the masses. He, as one of the elite, is exempt. If he believed for one moment that he was going to be subject to national health care himself and be taxed heavily, as a "rich man", he would be shocked. But he doesn't believe this for one moment because he is one of the elite.
Although I would agree that most people in Hollywood aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed, I think his argument makes a lot of sense, and it's similar to my own thoughts on the matter (coincidentally, of course). They think of themselves as artists, yet they depend on happy, paying customers to enjoy the lifestyle they have, and they can't stand the contradiction. Hence why at the Oscars this year, one saw The Dark Knight (by all accounts a great movie, but also the highest-grossing movie of the year) passed over for any major awards, except the expected and well-deserved nod to Heath Ledger. Meanwhile, the top awards went to films like Milk and Slumdog Millionaire, which from a technical aspect may have been very well made, but let's face it, NO ONE had heard of these films before they were announced for Oscar nominations. The political correctness issue didn't hurt, either, but in my opinion, this was an excellent example of Hollywood celebrating completely unknown films so they can maintain the illusion of themselves as some kind of artistic avant-garde.
These idiots are attracted to collectivism because they think they're too smart to believe is something as tangible as the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.
This is the great irony: Conservatism is by nature an intellectual pursuit. We as conservatives constantly read about our Founders to get a deeper understanding of our principles. We seek to better ourselves as individuals and strive to uphold tradition and civilized society.
Leftists, on the other hand, base their ideas on feelings. That is the path to collectivism.
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This was one of the most powerful things I learned upon coming over to the Right side. At the time I was still clinging to my "corporations bad" lefty beliefs. But I listened a lot to Larry Elder and read conservatives online and finally realized that "business" wasn't bad in and of itself. It was bad when it did what individuals do – look to gov't to bail them out, or "corporate welfare".
What a wake up call that was, it was around that time that my journey to the Light Side was complete.
And I haven't felt freer in my entire life.
Nah, "have a thirst on for power" works. It's kinda like "getting your groove on" or "getting a mad on".
I've been saying for a number of years that the only thing that will be gained by such people (Hollywood lackeys and appeasers to the terrorists) is that they will be killed last, should things go bad.
They are simply "useful idiots". Nothing more, nothing less.
But I think many of you have also hit the nail on the head, same as Nolte: it's a love of power, it's the desire to be "protected". They are cowards because they know they would never speak out in Iran, or Saudi Arabia or China or Cuba or North Korea, among other nations that are oppressed. They have had so much freedom for so long, they take it for granted. Only recent immigrants who come from such places understand freedom, since they either never had it, or had it so long ago, it's a faint memory.
But that's what also makes people like this scary. It reminds me, oddly enough of two characters from the original "V" series – Daniel, the brownshirt, and Donovan's mother. She said that the Visitors were power and she was aligning herself with that power. Daniel was a disaffected youth (for whatever stupid reason) and he gained self-worth by lording power over others (making a doctor lick his boots for instance). Many in Hollywood and even some regular Americans are in danger of becoming such characters.
They just feel guilty for making so much money and special treatment and adulation in exchange for basically playing pretend, they feel guilty for enjoying the life of the wealthy elite, and they long for someone to force them to give it up — to make them pure. That's all there is to it.
That`s why movie stars and politicians hold such a strong alliance. They both earn their keep making the public believe the unbelievable. They are very much alike when they reach the top of their game and realize it was all an act.
I don't think that 99% of the fascism-supporting Hollywooders have the level of understanding and forethought that you credit them.
Agreed. I think it is very easy to admire someone who promises equality for the masses when you have no understanding of economics and history.
did you ever think that they may all belong to the 'little dick club' you know what they say about birds of a feather
Great discussion. Let's not forget that there are exceptions to the rule. For the most part, though, Hollywood is simply a collection of perverts and drug addicts from top to bottom. In the asylum, Pavlovian methods are used. If you want your medications (fame and wealth), you learn to do what is the desired behavior, otherwise you may be flipping burgers or using food stamps. This deal is good enough for most of them. The biggies are the ones who are let to believe that they have escaped the asylum into the 'real world'. They grew to despise the relative freedom of the little folk for enabling their dependence upon them. They are angry and wish remove that freedom by imposing dependency in return.
What the hell are you talking about when describing The Lives of Others? During the time period of that film; 1984, the country was governed by communists, not fascists. Polar opposites. Go and read a history book.
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I think you summed it up perfectly! Hollywood leftists only wish they had the power to enforce their "greater" wisdom on the rest of us. In their eyes they are our superiors (ironic given the messes they make of their lives). Our form of government, democracy, free markets, etc. drives them batty.
StinkEye
Seems the circle is almost complete.
Communists vs. Fascists: different names……different methods: Same results, loss of liberty, freedom and justice for the individual.
@StellaChiara
While they may feel guilt somewhere, they push it aside. They are really looking for someone to tell them they deserve all they have and more, they probably convince themselves they are promoting a selfless cause, which will therefore elevate them. No they do not believe they will ever be one of the masses.
It seems that John and numerous others here are seeing the 'artists' rather clearly. Add all the 'artists' who answered the WH call to the NEA.
Sad. Dangerous but still sad.
Their narcississm is the equivalent to a mental disorder…..and that goes directly for their president too.
Thanks John, thought provoking!
Not the entire picture but a great sketch.
Your article was very well said.
That's why THEY plan to be the ones running them, THIS time.
Many of the Left must think of themselves as the new freedom fighters, at war with freedom in a quest for equality. A perfect world is where an elite and privileged class rules a world of equals in status, opportunity and dependency. "Despair or Die, we are all Democrats now."
…"History has shown that the first people to be sent to "re-education camps" under dictators and despots are, artist, educators, homosexauls and intellectuals."…educators and intellectuals in Hollywood?…do tell…
Over the top propoganda-check., rifle butt to the head-check, boot of oppression on the neck-check, round up and disappear the opposition-check. Camps where people go in, but don't come out-check. I dunno, methods kinda look the same to me. The main difference is the control structure at the top. You're missing the point. Statist repression is the same regardless of the worldview. Go read a poli-sci book.
When we put the democrats away in 2010, and finish the detail in 2012. The next to diminish into oblivion is much of Hollywood, along with the traitorous MSM. These are people that live at burn rates of 10 to 100 thousand bucks a week. Don’t see their movies, and like any business they’ll go bye, bye!
In my opinion the Hollywood crowd are unable to discern reality from fantasy. Their business is creating fantasies and in most cases that fantasy is controlled and shaped by one person – the director. How often have we seen an actor "become" in his private life the role he played in his biggest opus? I give Alan Alda as a prime example. This bunch really believes that they can make reality conform to their visions, and in a pluralistic democracy there are too many cooks spoiling the broth.
"All the world's a stage and all the men and women merely players".
I think what Jay said nails it. They don't like right-wing dictators, but if that brown skinned dictator does the exact same and pays lip service to "the people", and "fairness", they love him.
Also, there is an irresistible attraction on the left for governments who take power away from the unwashed and untrustable peasants and puts it in the hands of the enlightened.
I think Nolte's article successfully explained the motivations of these these arse-kissing doofusae. I'm also betting they have no clue as to their own motivations. Maybe their psyrinks haven't told them yet — why turn off the faucet when the green is still pouring out? I also think a good number of them, though dumb as a stick
intuit they shouldn't have more than people with intelligence, save lives and/or work hard to support their families, so I suspect they look for some benevolent dictator who'll provide those poor schlubs with their needs (certainly not mansions in Beverly Hills and Malibu) but adequate housing. (Remember, they don't get to see the tin huts in Venezuela and are too stupid to read or assimilate how the schulubs really live). Besides, the propaganda media tells them every day that America can do it better! Like we are doing it better with a socialist in power and a concurrent 10.5% unemployment.
They haven't so far been able to wrap their pea sized brains around the fact dicators have no friends; only sacrifices.
But, but, but, but, lots of 'em threatened to leave the U.S. if G. W. Bush were re-elected. Doesn't that count for anything? Couldn't you hear the sincerity and discouragement in their angry tones?
Wait, though, I almost forgot. Not a one who threatened to leave actually did leave. Every one of them kept his or her sorry ass right here in the U.S., where they're nice and safe and well-paid.
Susan, don't goooooooo, please don't go, what would we ever do if you leave?
Read Eric Hoffer's 'True Believer'. It's like gravity. Small dirt balls are always attracted to bigger dirt balls.
Lemme guess, someone told you that fascism is right-of-center, polically and economically.
Sorry, but fascism, along with Nazism, socialism and communism are all left of center ideologies.
We must not defend corporations, but we must defend economic liberty and markets. As long as big corporations provide what their customers want, society benefits. That doesn´t mean they are inherently good and selfless – nobody believes that. The problem starts when big government and big business collude to rig markets and squeeze the consumer and small businesses where most innovation and employment is found.
Even the liberal Village Voice gets it:
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-10-27/news/we-ve...
The Hollywood crowd loves dictators on two levels. The first is that dictators operate at a very base level without subtlety or ambiguity and the Hollywood creeps, most of whom are stupid and removed from reality can readily understand what they say. Second, they relate to the idea that as very special people, dictators and their entourage do not have to observe the constraints that societies and their laws place on others.As Roman Polanski could have told you prior to this year, its great to be King.
we stated
To quote:
"Instead, the new administration is putting its energy into creating what it believes will be a meltdown-proof new system of elite "too-big-to-fail" banks, regulated by a beefed-up Federal Reserve.
Even the business establishment's Wall Street Journal used the word "oligopoly" when it noted this summer that the Obama administration, "after saving the banks, is now planning regulatory changes that could establish an elite group of U.S. institutions with large investment-banking activities" that will be "hard to join and compete against." [...] Obama was Wall Street's preferred candidate in terms of campaign contributions. [...] More importantly, the nation's new top prosecutor, Attorney General Eric Holder, has a history of preferring that deviant corporations be held to no more than a "voluntary cooperation" system in which they investigate themselves privately…
Why I no longer watch movies or have anything to do with La-La land Liberals. If Iran nuked them, I would not care.
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The Anti Liberal Zone
John:
I can't add anything to your brilliant article or to many of the awesome comments by other readers. I will simply say that Hollywood is a joke and they just haven't realized yet that that is how most Americans view them. Those nitwit, former waiters/waitresses are very muched loved overseas and they assume us normal Ameicans feel the same way. It's comical! I love the picture of Ollie Stoned sucking up to Chavez's crowd pleasing antics! It's great. When the world as we know it ends, freedom loving (non-liberal) people need to unite and form our own nation. All liberals will be tossed out to fend for themselves (in which they would last about a week since there would be no government hand-outs). Bravo again on an insightful and dead-on analysis.
Yeah, I remember when I was teaching history back in Miami, FL, another history teacher was showing his class "JFK." I asked him why. He said that it was what really happened. Yup idiots abound in this world.
Wall Street as well as many other very large corporations like big government they are like two sides of the same coin.
Give this a read and decide for yourself if it is true or not:
What is American Corporatism?
I do not watch movies that feature these dolts. I consider it giving aid and comfort to the enemy. For the same reason I will not watch left wing media.
I'm not sure they actually think. As for being admired? Under a dictatorship, there's no guarantee people will bother watching them. Who will have the time?
There's a third element at work. Perversity. Actors do what shocks people because it draws attention to themselves. If under a dictatorship they got attention, not by bowing Obama-like to their Great One, but by thumbing their nose at him, they'd do that. Hence perversity.
Like Obama, they are children. Undisciplined, ignorant. P.S. I am so glad I can read the news on the internet. I'm now spared having to watch them, and those other entertainers called newscasters.
good point…
John, we're languishing without you doing any movie reviews these days. These tidbits give us our fix, but you're missing out on your true calling.
I went to school with and later worked with many actors and performers. The more liberal they were the more insecure yet arrogant they were. The only people they admired or connected with were other performers. They were also the worst students and naive and also, outcasts. And they were the last person anyone would have trusted or asked an opinion of – yet they become self serving experts of what the rest of us should be doing and thinking. Very, very funny and yet – someone stills listens to them?
I think you are exactly right- they are children rebelling.
Why do Hollywood types romanticize the left? Simple….even Sen. Joe McCarthy realized that Hollywood was being infiltrated by communists from within, but what he failed to realize was just how insidiously pervasive the communist infiltration was into ALL forms of American media and academia. The communists knew that they couldn’t take on the American armed forces directly, so they directed their efforts to undermine from within. Trotskyism at its finest. Drugs were also used to greatly affect undermining rationality and are still part of the Hollywood culture today.
OffDuty:
I have talked about that for years, however the TEA is spreading and will run them down and overtake them in time.
That's why they're "progressives." It's the 'new' way of dictatorship.
While I agree with the article and nearly everyone's comments, I think there's an aditional point that needs to be made. Most leftist celebrities live their entire lives in a fantasy world. There is no cause and effect. The rules need not be followed, even the ones they preach to the rest of us: the green movement, drunk driving, domestic violence, substance abuse, et al. The idealized communal society in which everyone takes what they need, gives all they can and we live happily every after in peace and love is a looney, pie in the sky fantasy that appeals to them. There is no competition, there is no failure, no one's feelings get hurt, everyone has plenty to eat, etc. The problem is that history tells us a very different story. When freedom, competition, and personal property rights are diminished, tyranny and misery prospers. You do have to go to school, study something not taught in the fine arts department, and apply yourself to get properly acquainted with such reality. We all know that doesn't happen much within the Hollywood crowd. They play make-believe for a living. Their twisted world view is nothing more than a product of fantasy.
Polar opposites?
Go and read this book dearie and enlighten yourself:
http://www.amazon.com/Faces-Janus-Marxism-Fascism...
Roman Polanski escaped Communist Poland because he was not free to do the kind of movies he wanted to do there. Then he fled America because he was not free to do the kind of teenagers he wanted to do here.
Lets face it, the majority of the celebrities we see and hear from are no ivy leaguers. Truth is most didn't attend college so it begs the question, "where do these hollywood elites get their information"? If these people are marginally educated, why is there so much importance put on what they say? And when they say something, they remove all doubt about their intelligence or lack there of.
Hollywood types worship "cool" far more than status (or, perhaps they see "cool" as a direct pathway to status). Think back to the Hollywood royalty of the 1960s. There was the "establishment" movie stars such as Jimmy Stewart, Elizabeth Taylor, Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, etc…(all fine talents but hardly "cool") and contrast them with "cool" actors such as Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, etc…(again they are fine actors but "cool" defines them, onscreen and off). An integral part of their "cool" appeal lies in their embrace of left-leaning politics and the inevitable socialistic dictators that come along.
Pretty soon, the "cool" ones starting winning Oscars and earning astronomical salaries and then every pimply kid in America aspired to be "cool". Now, any young actor or screenwriter who aspires to success knows full well that he/she must be a leftist (or, at least make the appearance of being a leftist) in order to get a shot at stardom, otherwise their phone calls just don't get answered and they wind up on Hollywood Squares.
That is a very astute analysis. I think you're absolutely right. I never thought of it this way, but it makes perfect sense.
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Also read the Pink Swastika but beware the brown shirts are gonna get ya!
That's the same reason Scientology appeals to Hollyweird. A religion with scads of drones in khaki living five
to a room doing the bidding of Those who have bought their way to the top. So far, the only way to become an aristocrat in this country is to buy the title. These people dream of it being made official. I echo the 'spot on' comments above.
this is nothing new. Here's a video of my favorite actor, Errol Flynn:
http://www.popmodal.com/video/2614/Errol-Flynn-ta...
Brilliant revelation. I had often wondered about this very question, but as was posted earlier, these people are not smart enough to follow this, (or any other issue for that matter), to it's logical conclusion. Therefore it must be simply their own vanity that is fed by these dictators trying to find world acceptance, which further feeds the vanity, just like the other drugs they so enjoy.
Spot on.
This got me thinking about the whole Hollywood power structure and how technology is going to uproot it. It's not around the immediate corner, but the possibilities and the means are heading a certain way. Recall this post at the start of Big Hollywood:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/jhudnall/2009/0...
Talent of all kinds exist throughout the country and there will come a time when people won't need to go to Hollywood to 'make it' in the entertainment industry. It may be a couple of decades away but a revolution in the movie making business is coming and these self-absorbed leftists who dominate the entertainment industry won't be the only game in town.
In case no one else has already said this, the great Ludwig von Mises said the same thing many years ago in his book "The AntiCapitalist Mentality" (hope I have the title correct.) Artists do not want to do what the masses are willing to pay for, they want to do what they want. Someone might want to so do a documentary about what artists of all kinds were expected to do under Stalin, etc, but it probably won't make any difference for most of these geniuses.
There is one thing I must say, if you are a dictator, you get a cool power hat (see Guddafi). I would love to have one of those power hats…
you are correct, the left is driven entirely by emotions. They don't grasp the concepts of reason, logic and facts.
And the more wealthy they are, the more pampered they are, they farther from real life they are removed, they only get worse.
The left likes dictators because secretly they despise democracy. Read the socialist literature and you see a vast wasteland of whining about how impossible it is to achieve socialist goals through the democratic process.
See, the people can't be trusted to make decisions for themselves because they will make the wrong decisions. They have to be guided by the firm, compassionate hands of the Dear Leader.
personally I think it's control issues. There is a significant segment of the humans (all races, elasticities, genders) who believe the only way civilization can survive is if there are strong government forcing us all to obey the laws.
The stricter the ruler, the more civilized we all are. Which naturally leads to a communist/socialist dictator.
They can't seem to grasp the idea that I obey the rule of law not because I'm threatened by the police or the state, but because it is the right and proper way to associate with my fellow citizens.
Take a look at any number of movies coming out of Hollywood over the last 40 years. Any movie where government or the police are paralyzed, the citizens always devolve in anarchy and chaos.
They've never pondered the concept that the author of Lord of the Flies might be wrong.
Congratulations on leaving the swamp!
If you haven't seen Reason magazine yet, I'd like to recommend it! My favorite subscription. By the time I'm done with an issue I feel like I've run a mental 10K.
It's neither right nor left. It's libertarian, a third way.
http://reason.com/
I lived up in Burlington when Platoon came out, and went to see it with a co-worker was a Vietnam Vet.
He said he liked it, it was realistic, except that those incidents were scattered through out the army, and nothing like that would ever happen to one single unit like that.
So it was like Stone picked every possibly bad scenario and focused them all on a single platoon.
"'The first thing we do,' said the character in Shakespeare's Henry VI, is 'kill all the lawyers.' Contrary to popular belief, the proposal was not designed to restore sanity to commercial life. Rather, it was intended to eliminate those who might stand in the way of a contemplated revolution — thus underscoring the important role that lawyers can play in society. "
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It has always been so. See Ludwig von Mises' Anti-Capitalist Mentality, written in the 50's for an interesting economic/sociological book on this topic.
The Obama Administration can be summed up:
Underpants Gnomes
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB12432913199165229...
When large corporations provide better services and/or products than smaller business, fine, including a better cup of coffee. And when those larger corporations fail to provide those better services, they should be allowed to fail, and smaller businesses pick up the pieces. Instead of trying to create an ideal marketplace as some people will through artificial pricing and manipulation of the market place (for social justice), let the market pick the winners and losers. It sucks to be on the loser side (and I have been on both sides from time to time, personally) but it is the only way to provide elevate the standard of living AND enable freedom, economically and socially.
Let's see, I referenced Orwell, quoted Mr. Nolte, linked WSJ, which references South Park, all bases covered
Actors are not artists.. I wish people would stop defiling art with such generalities..
You really want to know why? Its easy. Its Fuedal. They believe they are the lord and masters. They don't see themselves as the down trodden serfs who live under the thumb of the dictator but as dukes and duchesses who rule from a palace. They see themselves as smart enough to dictate what is right and wrong and above anyone elses touch. They believe they have a right to make those choices and are special and the choices don't apply to them. Its really very simple.
The Trotskyites always get whacked first when they get their dream dictators into power, and they never learn either.
As a Constitutional Conservative, I like a lot of the articles in Reason but the commenters are quite a different story. I've found that a lot of 'libertarians' are actually thinly disquised anarchist/leftist, with nothing but scorn for Judeo/Christian law as well as amoral on many of basic societal norms.
I am an Artist and I abhor dictators and tyrants. But, until America wakes up to the fact that Clinton, Bush and Obama are dictators there will always be a "romance" about what it means to live in a repressed society. Think Waco, Ellian Gonzales, the illegal bombing of Iraq, Survivors Richard Hatch. The list goes on and on. Big brother is watching and I am on the list of 2 million who question the government enought that my freedoms are violated when I go to fly on a plane.
I can definitely see why you have that opinion. I'm still new at this libertarian stuff my self, but as I understand it, the concept is simple, no person, persons, or organizations have the right to force me to behave against my will, and I have no authority to force anyone to do anything against their will.
And that extends to government. Look at what this President's administration is forcing us all to do? Bail out corp., rationing health care, giving trillions to democratic special interests.
It's so simple and open, any one can participate, which does invite in some crazies. But as long as they are true to libertarianism, it doesn't matter if they are anti-religious because they won't try to force their views on me. I can accept or deny any and all.
I find it to be the only political ideology compatible with Christianity, because I can find no where in the Gospels where Jesus ordered his followers to use the power of government to force people to follow him. As matter of fact to me he did pretty much the opposite.
If anyone will not welcome you or listen to your words, shake the dust off your feet when you leave that home or town. Mat 10:14.
That there is right — thems hollywood types are teamin' up with Obama and even some Europeans and Mexicans to attack our sacred rights given by da G-d of America to scream at the TV! Why, just the way the conservative true 'mericans are boycotting movies and TV and stuff — well, it brings a tear to my eye. Or maybe that's just from the tin foil bindfold I wear to keep out the evil Hollywood-Washington-Iranian-whatever brainwaves the TV keeps shooting at me. At least I think the TV's on ….
[...] Why Leftist Hollywood Loves Dictators from Big Hollywood by John Nolte [...]
There is another aspect that has influenced our culture and dumbed down the electorate to vote their own subservience, the introduction of drugs into this country by our enemies, the KGB. See this:
Drawing on defector information and other intelligence sources, Dr Douglass reveals that the Soviets plotted the global drugs scourge in the 1960s, as a key element of their planned onslaught against the fabric of Western society and culture. By the mid-1960s, the Soviet criminalists had already penetrated the existing drug networks; and where they had encountered resistance, they had set up fresh drug-trafficking organisations and distribution systems. Over the Western Hemisphere, Soviet drug-trafficking ops are controlled by the Cuban Communist Party's Americas Department, which remains to this day under covert Soviet KGB direction…. http://kitmantv.blogspot.com/2009/11/joseph-dougl...
Celebrities like anyone who has risen to the top. And if you live under a dictator's regime, you can't go any higher than the dictator himself.
Think about some of the movies that are made (that many of us watch and enjoy) in the Gangster genre. Godfather, Goodfellas, Sopranos… people love someone who rises to the top by not letting anyone stand in their way. There's always a respect there. I think that's really all there is to it… I don't think the people in Hollywood really think that they are supporting people losing their freedoms.
Quick read this before the buggers delete it.
http://www.gayconspiracy.co.uk/page45.html
From my experience in Hollywood there are a lot of Fascists in the corridors of power. Watch the raging, shrieking, screaming, abuse of the power elite towards anyone who doesn't goose step to their commands. or who screws up some order from these little fuhrers and you'll see the KGB or Gestapo in action. Listen to some stars talking to their PA's and the "underlings" who surround them and you'll see people who have no respect for working people and no regard for the dignity ofthe individual. No wonder these a'holes like dictators because they probably envy the fact that they have the power to lock up or shoot people who don't obey their orders. What a fantasy for an ego driven Hollywood loon.
Why thank you Nick.
You are absolutely right. This overwhelming need for validation is also the reason actors get drawn into cults like Scientology. The cultists play to this need and tell the actors/singers/celebs how wonderful they are. This attention becomes like an addictive drug.
They were denied love as children (absent or emotionally distant parents) and now seek it everywhere, but it will never be enough.
Well said John. You are so right.
They only like dictators because of their power. No other reason. They have no clue what happens to artists in these regimes. You are giving them far too much credit.
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