Not Anti-Celebrity Per Se, but...

Since I am a nobody who lives in the boonies and part of an apparent influx of newbies to the Substack journey, I am not privy to what it was like before changes were apparently made. However I saw a couple mentions about celebrity infiltration, and how that shifts the balance in a possibly unfair direction. Won’t go there. Don’t know enough to declare how much I ought to care.

However. I will say this. I did happen across a couple of these celebrities, rather they were famous or became famous long ago (80s-90s); one a highly talented singer and the other an actress.

Of course I had to be curious. How do they think? What do they think? How do they express how and what they think? How do they word?

Let’s put it this way: there’s an old King of the Hill episode where Hank Hill gets to meet President GW Bush. He’s over-the-moon excited about it - until he actually shakes Bush’s hand, and discovers it is a limp, weak, handshake. He is immediately and profoundly shaken, disturbed, distraught.

I am not particularly shaken, disturbed, distraught, but I did learn a profound lesson. If someone can sing well or act well, hey, that’s awesome. But it does not automatically mean their thinking, how they word whatever they think, is on the level of whatever talent they have that got them into celebrity status.