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“It used to be about trying to do something. Now it's about trying to be someone.” - Margaret Thatcher

This is a great article.Thank u for sharing. It is almost as if we're expected to live two separate lives but in reality, they're one, with no limit on looking back at the history of your life ignoring what was acceptable at that time and applying them to the present. Speechless.

"I was not talented enough to run and smile at the same time" ~ Emil Zatopek. Aren't we expecting too much of our celebrities?

At some point, the ennemy is defeated, there is no one left to kill. But the little monster we created is still hungry. And who is left to eat but us? And so we start to see the monster clearly.

"Average out the biases" Celebrities have a significant influence on politics these days. Frustratingly many politicians take the word of celebrities to be the popular take even though celebrities are untethered from reality or society. The same goes for Journalists & Comedians

Except that after the controversy Gina Carano made it clear that everyone was right and that it would be impossible to work with her because of her toxic attitudes. I’d be more sympathetic to the complaints about canceling if so many of the canceled didn’t get *more* toxic.