This last weekend held the annual Academy awards, a night were the best cinema performances from the previous year are recognized. Movies, actors and actresses, directors, and even members of the production staffs are recognized for their efforts.
While I enjoy going to a good movie as much as just about anyone else, I feel that to much attention is drawn to the glamour, fashion and pageantry. Actresses walking down the “red carpet” wearing perhaps the most hideous looking gowns. Media clowns asking the same lame questions over and over while flashes from cameras explode non-stop.
The evening also works the other way. Fans will sleep out on the streets for one or two nights before the Oscars, just so they can get a good view of their favorite actor. Rather ironic, being that it might be the only night in Hollywood when people willingly sleep on the streets.
Its time to move on. Our priorities have us following the hollow lives of actors living on the covers of US Weekly and the National Enquirer. We need to start looking at real world problems involving real world people. Following the careers of people who pretend to be someone else will not solve the problems that the world and its people face. Our problems will be solved by the workers of the world taking a direct action at the cause of these world issues.
Recognizing the abilities and accomplishments of all people will play an important role. So many people spend too much time focusing on the accomplishments of so few individuals, that they fail to see into their own abilities and accomplishments.
The establishment of socialism will require the people of the world to create a new set of priorities. Admiring the rock and roll lifestyles of the rich and famous will only help prevent the workers of the world from their greatest accomplishment, the end to capitalism and the beginning of socialism, a society that will work for them, not against them.
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