To understand why what happens in Hollywood is irrelevant to the rest of humans: 1) How many ACTORs do you have among your friends? 2) How many ACTOR friends do your friends have? Actors rarely mix with real people.
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2) Romans banned actors from marrying, even mixing with citizens. Same dynamics in modern times, but self-inflicted: engineers can mix w/gynecologists... actors stay with actors. Look at the funerals of "gens du spectacle".
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3) I do not know many industries where people are hired either a) on looks, or b) ability to impersonate what one is not.
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4) Actors should not be the ones lektchuring the rest of us on ethics & morality. They also have a tendency to conflate virtue and its external manifestation, given that everything in their world is appearance.https://medium.com/incerto/the-merchandising-of-virtue-b548762658f0 …
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5) And for the slow thinkers on the thread, you don't see gynecologists or train engineers lektchuring the rest of the world on virtue. Actors do. Gabish?
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6) Remember: actors are trained to not seem stupid.
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7) Now a harder questchon: what is the proportion of actors who voted for Hilary Monsanto-Malmaison?
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This is not the correct question. The correct one is: "What proportion of actors SAID they voted for Hilary?" People in high tax brackets tend to vote republican, no matter what they say.
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