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As time goes by the more I realized how much celebrity has
become a mental illness and why people like Neil Young, Cher, and others seem
so out of touch.
In our society to be famous is to isolate yourself from
reality.
You can't eat with ordinary people; you don't rub shoulders
with ordinary people; you don't romance Ordinary People.
This is the reason why they are so out of touch with reality
and what Ordinary People face.
Actors, musicians and others spend their young lives craving
fame and when they get it locks them in a prison of their own making.
Many of them come to believe that they are superior to
ordinary people, wiser, somehow more knowledgeable because they have achieved
success ordinary people have not.
When in fact success has divorced these stars from any real
experience.
Many of these people – such as musicians like Bruce
Springsteen and Neil Young -- start out their lives embracing real feelings,
writing or singing songs about real things because they are still striving the
way real people strive, but as time goes on, they become more isolated, and
their art becomes self-reflecting from the inside of their fishbowl. Most music
Springsteen does is about making music. Many of the once great modernist and
postmodernist writers are caught up with petty reflections, or start pumping
out propaganda like Toni Morrison eventually did, each writing about their
narrow lives as if it was reality.
Most celebrities are terrified of real people, and fearful
to go out in public and be exposed.
They rarely associate with anyone that isn’t also famous,
and so end up pumping each up other with a fake reality created inside their
social bubble.
Back in the 1960s, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Peter Fonda,
Tommy Smothers and the rest of that lot were part of a social jet set that had
almost nothing to do with the social events taking place, living up in Laurel
Canyon (in the fancy houses with swimming pools not the rundown Houdini Castle
where the rest of us lived by campfires), utterly isolated from anyone really
involved in the scene. Young wrote songs of social protest he never experienced
for himself, as did most of the other of that time. They were cool. They were
Gods in their self-created Olympus, with toadies and roadies serving them hand
and foot while keeping them isolated from the real world. If they let anyone
into their inner circle, that person had to be as famous as they were. The toadies
and roadies, who were as close to being real as any they met were too grateful
to be on the inside of this social circle to ever point out how deluded this jet
set people were.
I guess that's why these celebrities can do and say the
things they do now in the belief that they are actually taken seriously
We hear actors and musicians chanting about social justice
that they know nothing about because they've never been out in the real world
to experience it or at least not since they were young people when it was a
different world.
Actors, musicians and other celebrities spend a lot of time
talking to each other and getting their information filtered through media but
not from real experience so they can Pump Up the Volume on their own misbelief
and actually think that it is legitimate
That's why you have musicians like them taking down their
material from Spotify on the belief that they were doing some social justice
when they're only merely feeding their own ego based on ignorance.
This was made most evident by the idiotic remarks by Whoopi
Goldberg who has become a spokesperson for liberal and black position made such
an idiotic statement about the Holocaust, showing how little, she knew about
reality – even the black experience, ignoring the Jesse Owens conflict against
the Nazis, about the slaughter of black people by the Nazis, about the concept
of black Jews.
People attack her for being biased; people attack Neil Young
for thinking he's more important than he is.
But these are isolated people, condemned to a life sentence
among themselves, having to listen to themselves pontificate about things they
know nothing about, sharing their narrow world views through the bars of a
prison they built around themselves.
Instead of condemning Neil Young or his former girlfriend,
Joni Mitchell, we should sympathize with them, pity them. They are in a prison
from which there is no bail reform.
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