I prefer the artsie all emotion no reasoning explanation
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random thoughts Send a noteboard - 13/10/2017 02:09:45 PM

View original postAt least, for the 'leftism' in the sense of being sympathetic to minorities and open-minded about social change of various kinds. As an actor, 'put yourself in someone else's shoes' is basically your day job - if you manage to escape getting typecasted too much, you're expected during your career to act in a variety of roles, a variety of characters who all have different backgrounds and opinions. Of course you can do all that and still have so-called 'conservative' views on other topics such as the economy, but a certain level of open-mindedness and empathy for the poor is rather natural in actors, I'd say.
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View original postI often think of sports the same way, they become millionaires for playing children's games. BUT! The big difference in culture is that sports really is a meritocracy and there is real, honest competition in the work.
View original postIs it? How many cases do you know in American sports of people who play well for a season or two, get an extremely lucrative contract, and then fade into insignificance while still getting paid the same until the contract runs out? In Hollywood that's a lot harder to do.
Weinstein - I've long had this theory...
12/10/2017 03:31:11 PM
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I love the Hillary outrage. Like her husband isn't just as bad. *NM*
12/10/2017 03:42:18 PM
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Re: I love the Hillary outrage. Like her husband isn't just as bad.
12/10/2017 03:49:07 PM
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Just because he drugged and raped a 13 year old he doesn't deserve an Oscar?
12/10/2017 04:01:19 PM
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that is some wishfull thinking
12/10/2017 04:36:31 PM
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umm... sure.
12/10/2017 04:50:37 PM
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Not saying the are wrong to speak out but I alsoi hear there is corruption on Washington
12/10/2017 06:53:51 PM
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I love the Hillary outrage...like she didn't know. Weinstein's money is attractive. *NM*
12/10/2017 07:20:52 PM
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Look at Silicon Valley
12/10/2017 04:32:22 PM
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But what is the cause, and what is the effect?
12/10/2017 04:43:10 PM
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that is the problem with easy wealth. Deep down you know you just got lucky
12/10/2017 06:56:17 PM
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You also assume everyone else with wealth just got lucky if you got rich that way
20/10/2017 07:01:55 PM
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I've often thought of lot of their leftism/anti-capitalism is based on guilt.
12/10/2017 06:21:39 PM
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Seems to me there's a rather more obvious explanation.
12/10/2017 07:33:58 PM
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I prefer the artsie all emotion no reasoning explanation
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13/10/2017 02:09:45 PM
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You're pretty amazingly optimistic about how meritocratic capitalism is.
12/10/2017 07:18:38 PM
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wut?
12/10/2017 09:57:09 PM
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Hm. You're completely misunderstanding my post.
12/10/2017 11:09:11 PM
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the point you are misisng is the succes is selection process not a talent process
13/10/2017 02:22:04 PM
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I think you're making this up
13/10/2017 03:03:18 PM
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Uh, the two sentences from your post that I quoted?
13/10/2017 07:24:58 PM
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The two sentences you quoted don't say anything positive about capitalism
13/10/2017 08:12:49 PM
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What actual point would that be, then?
13/10/2017 11:55:56 PM
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People move to LA, scrape by on nearly nothing for years,
14/10/2017 12:17:00 AM
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Right. Yeah, I think we've both wasted more than enough of our time on this then. *NM*
14/10/2017 12:39:29 AM
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You're amazingly ignorant of what capitalism consists.
12/10/2017 11:15:51 PM
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absolutely
13/10/2017 05:09:40 PM
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Funnily enough, we seem to agree on most points. Here was me thinking I wrote in plain English... *NM*
13/10/2017 07:29:15 PM
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There seemed to be an implication that there's something wrong with it, or that more is expected *NM*
14/10/2017 06:08:59 AM
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Not even close. It is control environment where success is bestowed
13/10/2017 02:16:09 PM
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See, if it were communism, everybody working on a movie would get paid the same.
13/10/2017 07:41:18 PM
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