@53de482a Entirely. Also, while we're being showbiz and exposing who we really are by our actions, her relationship with her wife on RH made her seem like quite the bully and generally a pretty cold person. We should start calling her the Margaret Court of Tennis Lesbians or some such, just to accentuate the bigoted legacy of hate she's attached herself to....
*But, also, being rich and/or famous is just bad for your basic humanity. We really need to protect people from the mental health dangers of being very wealthy by taxing the fuck out of them.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/may/31/margaret-court-tennis-reaction-same-sex-marriage-opposition-is-bullying
@a0b872c9 There's a cycle that happens where Big Entertainment gets so out of touch with what's actually going on culturally that independents not only find profitable niches but start outselling Big Entertainment (Nirvana was kind of the apex of this and they set off a small label buying frenzy by Big Entertainment, in my experience but I'd suspect it's got even deeper roots). Big Entertainment has never not been unethical and exploitative (though there are still many smaller labels run by people who love music). As always in capitalism, the issues are around ownership and exploitation and it's only gotten worse as hedge fund bros have gotten into the music IP business.
@a0b872c9 You know, the whole "promise" of streaming was that it would generate payments that properly rewarded individual artists for exactly the amount of streams they generated (even if it was only one) but, instead, because they're often owned by Big Entertainment they funnel all the money back to Big Entertainment. The ultra wealthy will never let the rest of us be free or even get access to the money we're generating that they scoop up while burying us.
In the case of streaming videos, Big Entertainment tried to break writers and actors then, when Big Entertainment finally had to acknowledge they need writers and settle, they started with "cost cutting" and taking their revenge on all the workers in the entertainment industry. They pretend it's about "share price" and so on but they're not cutting any massive CEOs salaries (and the CEO is likely doing this because the only thing he's interested in is making his bonus by providing the illusion of profitability).
My big hope is that we'll see a rise of independent production houses who actually care about movies (be they trashy ones or high art). We deserve better movies than Big Entertainment wants to give us. We deserve niche movies, strange movies, local movies, etc as well as "blockbusters."
@2a70c54d I suspect some people think you HAVE to be a dick on social media to be successful (dovetails with the whole corporate cult belief that being a dick and shitty to others means you're a super genius). Also, many people have been trained by corporate social media that rewards people with attention for being terrible/sensationalist/highly emotionally hooked and if you have no actual talents and desperately want attention because you've been hollowed out by chasing one's own narcissism....but are too lazy and entitled to learn and develop social skills or an actual talent....then being a bigmouthed dick is kind of the go-to of many people because it often works super well in Americanized spaces (see also a whole bunch of the people elected to the GOP).
But, I also think it reveals how many people just aren't particularly kind people in general.
@2a70c54d While I haven't done DMT personally, I've been following the science and discussion by users less prone to wanting to believe God is speaking to them personally, my conclusion is that it stays well within the realm of natural experience (this makes any feelings of connection to the universe and wonder no less worthwhile or genuine as a personal experience, just like understanding the neurobiology of meditation doesn't nullify the benefits of meditation and the sense of being one with all we get when we shut down our sense of proprioception and lose the sense of our body in space).
I wasn't so quick to come to this conclusion, it took a while. I'm still curious to try DMT at some point, even if I'm partially attracted to it for it's "busy person's psychedelic" aspects! @a763f0a6
@ad39b1fd Indeed but these things can often indicate that milder versions of the same thing could well be happening in people who aren't feeling the effects yet but may down the line. Cardiologists are very busy because of Covid. @01d7868f
@a0b872c9 My point is they never got knocked down because they will (and have historically) spend large amounts of money to consume competitors and to control distribution (and airplay). The amount of money they were dangling in front of indie record labels back in the late 90s/early 2000s was a lot (not everyone bit, of course, and they resorted to all kinds of "we own you but you keep creative freedom" type deals that worked well for a few people for a little while during the buying frenzy).
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