• logicbomb@lemmy.world
    371·
    8 days ago

    The guy in the picture is about 1000 times smarter and cooler than any person who defends billionaires.

    At least he has some chance of getting something out of his effort. He might get a high five from a person who he admires. Yes, they might not really care about him, but he has the chance of getting a good memory and something to tell others about in the future.

    Hell, one time, I saw Alan Alda across a large room, and I told my friends about it. I didn’t meet him. I didn’t even get close to him. If Alan Alda had given me a high five, I’d have bragged about it.

    Comparatively, people who defend billionaires get nothing out of it. Far from getting a high five, they wouldn’t let you anywhere near enough that that could even be a possibility. And your reward isn’t the possibility of a small connection. No, every billionaire’s goal is to put as much distance between themselves and the average person as possible, financially, and probably physically. They want you in the pits of despair while they are getting off on Epstein’s island.

    Billionaires literally despise poor people, if they think about them at all. They can’t believe how stupid a poor person would have to be to support them.

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      I think it’s the same psychological effect for all of this, including the mindless adulation of specifical political figures (though there tribalism also participates by defining the subset of political celebrities being adulated).

      It’s the acceptable expression of submissiveness in the modern era.

      I have actually been in direct contact with some political celebrities in my country (as a member of a political party) and minor acting celebrities in the UK (as I took several short acting courses for fun when living there) and even with my awareness of such irrational behaviour the natural impulse when I first met them to “look up to” well known people like that and being noticed by and leaving a good impression, is huge.

      It’s a really stupid impulse.