Celebrities and the Values of Political Opinions

Celebrities who politically bloviate outside their chosen professional arena is a recent phenomenon of modern society. The status of celebrities in the lives of individuals and families have become over valued. The value of celebrities should only be realized with the talent they have developed, and that is creatively acting for some, and creatively promoting story telling. I only bring this up due to Johnny Carson’s death. Now, and in the last few decades, celebrities have moved into the realm of the political opinion.

Those that place undue value in the opinions of journalists and TV interviewer celebrities, and the Hollywood celebrities themselves, have contributed to the development of reinforcing a false idea that somehow the value of the opinions of those celebrities are inherently high.

In comparison of celebrities that can be classified in the same category as Johnny Carson to other celebrities that have a high regard for their own opinions are definitely in a different category. The question is then why have those, that are like Johnny Carson, moot when it comes to political opinions, and those that fall into the other category bloviate about theirs? The answer is those celebrities that fall into the trap of providing political opinions are dissatisfied with their own career of acting. Johnny Carson was very stable with the career he made himself as an entertainer. Celebrity's narcissistic tendencies bloom when they opine politically. Notice Johnny Carson has no public label of being either Democrat or Republican. Because politics in his realm of public entertaining didn't matter.

What the Hollywood crowd needs to do is develop more of a character like Johnny Carson’s, and try to have a better sense of satisfaction with the career of acting.