Friday, May 11, 2012
Remember this story next time some Hollywood personality offers his or her opinion on a subject or issue that actually requires the application of an unsullied and substantial intellect to understand - and of course I'm talking about Oliver Stone in this context given the way he's cheered and extolled the many supposed virtues of Chavez's Venezuela and lauded Chavez himself. How did we come to this sad, dispiriting place where a celebrity's opinion on something of real importance actually seems to matter? Have we become that stupid as a people? What's scary, with a leftist president who is running a populist campaign built around demonizing rich, successful people and promoting utterly bogus issues like 'fairness', and with the news about JP Morgan this morning, and with the reviled [by business leaders] Dodd/Frank bill moving towards reality and the much feared Volcker rule aspect of it still to be written - what's scary is that the average person's negative but grossly simplistic view of Wall Street was probably formed in part by Oliver Stone's movie - Oliver Stone, idiot ideologue and champion of Chavez, de facto wack job dictator of cesspool state described in story linked above. I don't see how a sane, rational person cannot be troubled by this. But at least Obama has gone gay and civilization is apparently now saved. Christ it's depressing.
