Yeah yeah I heard that Madonna called for troops to be withdrawn from Iraq.
The mind-numbing irresponsibility of such activity is clearly lost on her, but that’s not what I object to. What I object to is the fact that I was informed about her opinion.
In the words of Alice Cooper:
“If you’re listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you’re a bigger moron than they are. Why are we rock stars? Because we’re morons. We sleep all day, we play music at night and very rarely do we sit around reading the Washington Journal.”
I don’t care what the hell she or any other 2-bit musician, pop star or rap artist thinks about politics, any more than I care about what the average man on the street has to say. So why the hell does the man on the Clapham Omnibus get ignored consistently whilst celebrities, who very often have no sense of current affairs, have their every utterance published?
You’re reading this blog because you choose to take interest in what some 20 year old law student has to say about the world and it is humbling to have so many people visit each day. But if you suddenly decided you didn’t want to listen to me anymore, you could just remove my bookmark from your folder and drop my wafflings out of your life.
No one decides whether we want to listen to celebrity political opinion - it’s just thrust in front of us like some malodorous casserole which we are encouraged to ingest.
There’s something wrong with that, it’s another aspect of our celebrity culture that infuriates me. If Madonna wants to say something then let her write a blog and as long as I’m allowed to ignore it I’ll be happy. Please, please stop shoving it in front of me when I open a newspaper.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at November 10, 2004 02:47 AM | TrackBack