Not too long ago I listened to music, but never really listened to the music. I didn't listen to the musicians either. In retrospect, it was probably better that way, because as I've found, some musicians can be idiots.
It seems like there's an ever increasing number of musicians and actors/actresses that are trying to put in their two cents on the political scene. My question is this: Why do they think they're qualified to speak out on anything other than music/acting? I don't go to a plumber to get financial advice, and conversely, I don't ask a financial advisor how to unclog a sink. It just wouldn't make sense. Everyone knows that the ego's in Hollywood are, well, slightly inflated. I think that's where this whole trend started. Someone got a little big for their britches. While sitting in their 25,000 square foot mansion they decided that America needed to know how they felt. Why wouldn't we? We're paying them millions to pretend, logically we desperately need to know who they're going to vote for. Right? Wrong. I don't know any Rock and Roll hall of famers, or anyone who's made a multi-million dollar film personally, but judging by the media there are some pretty immoral, irresponsible people in the entertainment industry. Drug abuse, alcohol abuse, 15 minute marriages, and a varitable cornucopia of other run-ins with the law seem to be the norm. Granted, they are American citizens, and they do have the right to voice their opinions, and vote for whomever they please (unless they've commited a felony...no voting for them), what really stews my bean is why anyone would actually listen to them. Why people? What makes us think that they know anything more than we do? Maybe in between films and concerts they're studying political science? No, maybe they've got a direct line into Washinton, they're privvy to classified information that we don't have? No, maybe they're just a load of pompous windbags that think we'll listen to them because we "love" them. Bingo. Sadly enough plenty of people do listen to them. People my age have grown up watching hours and hours of TV, it's become the loud Uncle. You know what I'm talking about. The one uncle that's always telling dirty jokes, always teaching you a new bad word, always fooling you into pulling his finger. We've gotten to the point that if we see it on TV, it's gospel. It has to be true. Thus anyone that's been on TV has to be trustworthy. Hopefully we'll see a paradigm shift in the near future. The youth (and some of our elders) will start listening to people who actually know politics. But that's a slippery slope too. Define 'know politics'. But that's another story. Moral of this story, don't be an idiot...and if you can't help but be an idiot, don't talk, and for heavens sake don't vote.
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