What Grinds My Gears

I'm beginning to realise that this blog is just becoming a rant session about things I hate, and I'm about to do it again. Perhaps I should change the name of my blog from 'We Blog' to 'Things I Hate'. It really does seek akin to Peter Griffin's 'You Know What Really Grinds My Gears'.

Today; famous people.

I despise the kind of movie star or musician who has developed the idea that they are better than everyone else, and therefore feel entitled to ignore or abuse the normal people.

The way I see music and movies is as a form of contemporary art as opposed to simply entertainment. True a vast majority of Hollywood movies and popular music are the equivalent of biro drawings of boobs and cock-and-balls in the exercise book of a high school boy; (entertaining, but not much artistic value), but still art nonetheless.

The thing is, these actors and musicians RELY on people liking their work, watching their films, buying their CDs or going to their concerts. It's the appreciation of the massess that give these people a career and when I see or hear of these artists ignoring or abusing those very masses it makes me furious.

I have a similar idea about many politicians. While I am willing to be proved wrong, I get the impression that many a politician believes that they are voted to the people's 'bosses', and if they're voted into office they gain the right to dictate how the very people who voted them in live their lives. The principles of democracy are that EVERYONE has an equal vote, however unless we want parliamentary meetings involving everyone in the country, we need to elect someone to represent us. Politicans therefore are the elected spokespeople or representatives of their constituents, not their bosses. The way I see it therefore is that the politicians actually work for the people, so the people are in fact bosses of the politicians, not the other way around.