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Coming Tonight (03-26-00):  The Animal-Farm Awards..(du20000326-01)
What a paradox is the entertainment industry.  The dominant figures in the entertainment industry ("super-stars," producers, directors, and investors) are among the most successful capitalists in the world, yet the cultural, political and economic views they promote are so starkly statist and anti-capitalistic.  Today, it will be almost impossible to find any "news" program not focusing on speculations and stories about the Academy Awards as though such event were important.  Unfortunately, the fact that such an overwhelming majority of people are so enthralled by such frivolity is what creates the artificial "importance" of such event.  Driven by an almost desperate craving to somehow "connect" with those who have the power of celebrity, millions upon millions of people will worship at this false altar and unwittingly pay homage to the predictable anti-capitalist drivel that will be purveyed by the those highly-successful capitalists in the entertainment industry.  Whenever such entertainment figures spout their standard, cliché-filled anti-capitalist drivel, why don't at least some in the "news" media ask them to explain why a system that gives them high rewards for high risks shouldn't apply equally to ordinary people, other businesses and corporate investors in general?  Why is it that in the entertainment lexicon, "profit" is a dirty word only when it applies to any non-entertainment industry while it is the holy grail within the entertainment industry?  The answer is clear:  The entertainment industry is the real-life embodiment of Animal Farm and the real "iron triangle" is Hollywood, New York and Washington, D.C..  I will cast my vote against such nonsense by refusing to watch the entertainment industry's self-indulgent, self-congratulatory drivel.  © 2000.