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Don'T Listen To the Actors, Part Ii

...What room is there for merit in a bubble that’s so ruled by fear? Any who dares have principles will be out of work in a year, the industry is designed to give only the servile cheers, tell me, is that the type of soul you really want bending your ear? And given how often these folks go into and out of rehab, and all the health problems they face chasing the latest new age fad, and all the infidelity, the strings of marriages gone bad, why would we think they know better? Why imitate decadent cads? And finally we should look at the huge elephant in the room, the behavior of the actors that will lead to eternal doom, the casting couch and actresses who willingly sell the boom-boom for bit parts in forgotten films, their reward? Depression and gloom. Worse than them are all the pedos, the abuse at work in the town, these actors all know about it, they do nothing to tear it down, when it comes to real cowardice these behaviors must take the crown; do they even think of these kids, the damaged souls that they are now? The Greeks and Romans saw actors as little better than prostitutes, and now, two thousand years later, that pretty much remains the truth. To take advice from such people means you might just have a screw loose, do not listen to the actors, nothing they say is good for you.

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