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Samizdata quote of the day – beware of pretty fuckwits The actual argument being made is that British actors, tax breaks, directors, scriptwriters, lovely Cotswold villages (and in the case of Bridgerton, the street outside my flat) are just such wonderful places to film, film with, that prices are rising. Therefore we’ve got to subsidise all this.
The only reason we listen to fuckwits like this is because they’re pretty. Now, honestly, hands up. Who has ever known a pretty bird, handsome man, who can actually think? Even, actually has the base data to be able to think with?
No, no, it’s not that the leavening of IQ and looks equals out over genes. Quite the opposite. Dullards in the sense of actual cretins and morons tend not to look good either. But the good looking have never had to think now, have they? So, they don’t.
– Tim Worstall
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……..,unless the Government urgently intervenes to rebalance the playing field, for every ‘Adolescence’ adding to the national conversation…..
Dame Caroline Dinenage (Conservative)
“You keep using that word (rebalance), I do not think it means what you think it means”.
Inigo Montoya
Anyway, the correct word is level. Further proof that there is nothing like a Dame for getting the simplest things wrong.
(I was not exactly shocked to learn that the good Dame previously held ministerial responsibility for the Online Safety Bill).
Leaving aside all the swearing (I am no prude, I was a security guard for years – I have seen, and heard, it all, but the swearing adds nothing to the argument) the post is correct – a tax on American television shows is just as much “Protectionism” as a tariff on motor cars. If the British government goes down this road then its denouncing of “Protectionism” is revealed as a hollow sham.
As for “quality television” – there is very little on American of British television that is any good – most “entertainment”, and most documentaries, are just vehicles for leftist political and cultural agitprop.
It is the same in most Western countries (for example Canada) – the left control education and control the media, especially “entertainment” and use their control to undermine society – to push decline, and decay.
I am told that Hungary is different – that the left does not have total control of education and the media there (which is why the totalitarian “international community” hates Hungary) – but I can not speak Hungarian, so I do not know.
I don’t think anyone quoted by Tim is terribly pretty. Dinenage is OK by political standards, but not enough to make one ignore her idiocy. Yet another Conservative who is nothing of the sort.
It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think. – Thomas Sowell
I take it as a given that when entertainers voice opinions, like Chris “Captain America” Evans being in the tank for Hillary, somewhere in the background there is an implied “If you want to work in this town again …”.
Actual not implied as the highly bankable B-lister Brendan Fraser learned to his cost.
See also Gina Carano who thankfully is fighting back against Disney all guns blazing
It’s not that pretty girls can’t think, it’s that those who do think are not spouting the narrative that the media wants spouted. So few good thinkers, pretty or not, are given much media time.
Marketing always wins. Form beats function. Humans are attracted to attractive people, and it’s easier to judge them based on looks than on content. So their content gets a free pass.
This is why the amount of money available for a candidate for election is usually more important than what that candidate says. Commercials that show off nice hair and a good body get more votes than a good debate performance.
We get the government that we (the mass “we”) deserve.
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