Comments on: Celebrities as symbols

By: Marie

Marie — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 14:56:12 +0000

This is the best article I’ve read anywhere in a loooong time. Thank you.

By: Mark w

Mark w — Sun, 27 Oct 2019 00:30:52 +0000

Well said Greg. Good point

By: Kathy Reid

Kathy Reid — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 14:51:43 +0000

Well, for all we REALLY know, the Pope could be Jewish, or Mormon or a Buddhist or maybe Anti-Christ, or HEAVEN FORBID Athiest. ????

By: Greg C.

Greg C. — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 03:30:32 +0000

Whether they have their supposed intended effect, or the opposite, these symbols only have the power that we give them. Trump is more a symbol of collective resentment and contempt than any celebrity in my lifetime, while maintaining his approval rating on par with Obama. Does that make sense? Of course it does if, when you think of those approval numbers, you are filled with contempt for the people who voted for him, 99.99999% of whom you have never met. That becomes the explanation for what generated the response within you to the symbol.

By: John

John — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 00:55:49 +0000

A tenuous last line, to put it mildly, if one takes the present inhabitant of St. Peter’s chair as an example.

I might suggest a less ambiguous closing remark…

By: Sue

Sue — Sat, 26 Oct 2019 00:29:31 +0000

Actually, no, the major mainstream media has fawned over HRC. The other “image” you describe has to be searched for. Despite information that briefly came forward about the private email server, ‘scrubbed’ emails,, Benghazi, Clinton Foundation crimes, etc., those were quickly covered with alibis and swept under the rug in mainstream media.
If you haven’t noticed that the media is not only magnifying and promoting the globalist agenda of manufacturing charges against our current President (from the very moment he was elected), plus manipulating and encouraging the public to not only hate him, but to engage in ridicule and violence against him and anyone who supports him, then you’re definitely coming from personal bias rather than observation.

By: JV

JV — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:02:10 +0000

Excellent information.
However, ahem…I would appreciate you using a different example than HRC.
Because, you have seen a different media image than I have…
For the past…30…maybe more…years, she has been presented in the media not as you say, but as…lesbian in pantsuits, incompetent, a murderer, a cheating husband enabler, a anti-stay at home mom. Certainly the images presented in the 2016 election were more detrimental than flattering. Thus, the even more egregious symbol of con artist celebrity of Donald Trump is now our president. The Kardashian’s will be next. Everything you think about HRC was manufactured by a ratf*cking PAC.

By: paschn

paschn — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 16:23:57 +0000

Good point.

Re-posting, thanks.

By: About Creativity

About Creativity — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:43:55 +0000

Very good, ´´But THEY (the propagandists) aren’t doing it to YOU in a vacuum. You’re consenting to the ploy. You’re injecting the desired meaning. You’re not a helpless victim.´´

100% agree!

By: About Creativity

About Creativity — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 15:39:24 +0000

Very good, “PR people, if they could, would have a presidential candidate come up to a microphone, stand there, smile, and say nothing.” The BEST!