George Clooney is too brave for this world

In my brave confessions,let it be dutifully be noted that I have never watched the Oscars in my life. Sure, I've come across bits and pieces here and there but never quite understood the celebrity fascination. Question: If many people feel athletes are over paid why aren't people questioning celebrities?

With sinful excessive decadence within its core, Hollywood helped spawn a lobotomy induced gossip industry that proves the idleness of our minds. Alas, not all is lost as the ratings for the Oscars were dismal this time around. Are people finally beginning to take Hollywood with a grain of salt? Seriously, how many more stories do we have to hear about divas and divos treating their staff as though they have leprosy? "Don't you dare speak an utterance to me you low life. I'm a millionaire low-life with a hint of whate trash and don't you forget it. Now cut a cheque to this charity and don't forget my tax receipt you moron."

Thank God for intellectual salt'n peppa activists like George Clooney to save us. He who is so proud to be 'out of touch.' He who feels liberalism is a dirty word - which it's not. If it is, it's possible for the reason that Classical liberalism has been hijacked by pseudo-phony liberals by Hollywood scumbags. Hollywood is not interested in the complex and elusive concept of truth but rather it seeks - wittingly or otherwise - to portray its vision of whatever events and issues in their mold and visions. Big difference between being trustworthy social commentators and purposefully manipulating stories for one's own gains. Please see Michael Moore.

What he meant of course by his out of reality gibberish is that Hollywood is the preserver and conveyor of all things progressive. Despite his fondness for his industry, I'm not sure if Holywood is ahead of the mainstream curve. At best, it imitates and copies life. In this light, Hollywood seems like a coincidental tool in pop culture; they pluck stories from the newspapers that are claimed to be alternative and they make big budget films out of them. Most of course are based on conspiracy theories. This is what they mean by alternative?

Films truly ahead of their time rarely get contemporary recognition. To seemingly put himself in a class of avant-garde actors because he made an oil film or that Hollywood made a gay cowboy film is proposterous. Time rarely vindicates selective Hollywood on such issues.

Brave new world he is proud to be a part of. How brave is Hollywood? Brave to the extent of asserting its agenda - whatever it may be. He has taken his ideals to the paupers. We should feel privileged in his eyes. Hollywood is not mainstream, no way. Nah.

The truth is that we should never look to Hollywood for any historical or political or cultural lesson. Hollywood either suffers - so it seems - from exaggerated self-importance (and why shouldn't they given how people sickenly maul celebrities?) or infantile insecurity. Since when has Hollywood ever influenced history as a serious discipline? Of course, it doesn't have to in the minds of our brilliant actors since Hollywood points out all the stuff history neglects or people don't want to talk about. What a crock of hooey.

To the well-informed and well-adjusted, his comments were harmless. Just another Hollywood actor making a forgettable comment. Delete. Then again, some will take issue and in their own way hold him to it. As it stands, there is nothing insightful out of Hollywood's narcissistic lessons - ask any historian. But don't tell that to Mr. Clooney. Hey, Mambo! Mambo Italiano...