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In reply to the discussion: "Matt Damon Whines About Getting Brad Pitt’s Rejected Roles" [View all]freshwest
(53,661 posts)I'm taking his complaint with a grain of salt. The rich and famous don't live the kind of lives most of us do, tied to one place and one home, dependent on the people around them to be safe and give their kids opportunities for socialization and learning about other people. The typical super star actor or actress lives just like other super rich do. They live in exclusive areas that don't have the need for public schools, and they don't advocate paying for them. Anymore than they care about fire and police levies, food stamps, social services, mass transit, etc. But these are the bricks and mortars of most our lives, and provided to us by OUR government.
In this fellow's defense, he's famous and that can be a threat to his life and that of his family. Just like Obama has his kids in private schools, and so do most politicians. Being a famous politician is quite dangerous. Just imagine one of the libertarian RWNJs' deciding to 'water the tree of liberty with the blood of tyrants' or an elected official. And those in Hollywood are not immune to stalkers, either.
And I have not followed this little hissy fit in the media being described here, either. But I can't defend him too much, since he's denigrating a man who has done more to lift the lives of millions of people whose path he will never cross, cannot help, and doesn't want to know about. Not because he's a bad person. He's just not aware.
People like Damon don't have time, except as a sort of entertainment to go see how 98% of Americans live, much those who are really bad off. Kind of like visiting the zoo, they go around and look at the homeless and throw some crumbs at the caged folks, but what do they do to end the savage inequality that the media promotes and pays them so well to keep our minds off of it?
Sorry, but they are just another media diversion off the stage as they are on it.
Matt and other have their own entourage to keep their schedule, manage transportation, clotbing, shopping, meals, hotel rooms and all that. Don't get me wrong. He is a very specialized human being who can memorize and recite a script in a credible way for the most part. And they do work for very long hours and with more commitment than many jobs. So it all evens out.
When he or other actors start talking off script, anything is liable to come out of their mouth. They are not held responsible for it. If Obama was to announce for the LULZ that he was going to do this or that outrageous thing, there would be panic. Not just in the markets, but other places. Screwing up with just one word, can cost people's lives. Is it any wonder he takes his time talking and his hair is white already?
Is Matt in charge of that kind of thing, making the choice in a world half full of savagery and hatred?
While the elites in media may sympathize with us, they may want to lead, Matt needs to get some political science and civics under his belt and look at what Obama has dealth with in this nation.
PBO is not a rock star nor is he a messiah. He just happens to be at the place in time and space to try to bring this country off the road we are being herded into and that is libertarian created feudalism.
He's a true believer in what some Americans have given up on. His ideas when presented against the well-monied RW sound archaic, but so is the document that our government based on, to some people. But the RW ideas are ancient.
There is no easy way out of what we've gotten into here, and it's damned hard to rally brainwashed people who don't want to think hard and look only for villains and heroes, which is childish. But there are enough people with level heads on their shoulder to push forward. Still, they can't do it all alone. Matt is not helping, although I want to believe his heart is in the right place. But he's an actor, is this method?.
Hypocritical? Maybe. So clueless as to what being in the office of POTUS entails? Definitely.