CORD-CUTTER: Why even your favorite celebrities deserve to be blocked across socials
The concept of celebrity is a power exchange. We, the people, have invested our time, money, and resources in these individuals' careers and given them power. We have every right to take this power back.
If you're expecting a point-by-point takedown of today's biggest names in Hollywood, I'm afraid I have to disappoint. This CORD-CUTTER post isn't about your problematic faves—instead, this is an exercise that recognizes "celebrity" as a transfer of power we've been participating in, often without much thought.
The concept of Hollywood celebrity can be verifiably identified as an american psyop that has been in motion (pictures) for decades. Early Tinseltown was full of thespians with political ties, some even taking voluntary spy roles.
In 1934, the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio fabricated a "race documentary" shown in hundreds of California theaters (Glass, Politico, 2007). This so-called documentary was a negative tactic deployed in response to author and gubernatorial candidate Upton Sinclair's populist "End Poverty in California" platform, which included reforms to help solve economic inequity.