See, I am 100 per cent on board with people wanting to shit on the Oscars, and for that matter the Emmys and Grammys too. They aren’t annual celebrations of merit and achievement by artists so much as they are the end result of backroom politicking and grandstanding by incredibly out of touch elites and judges whose tastes are so fucking pedestrian that they’ve lead to a whole genre of well-meaning stories of adversity known as “Oscar bait.” You know them when you see them. The Grammys are probably the worst of the bunch considering the overrepresentation of the same lousy pop acts every year. Based on those statements alone I will self-assuredly, and without shame, take my seat at the table of pretentious critics who in some way make money out of complaining.
However, I still feel uncomfortable with any excess or banal action that takes place in the West being diminished on the grounds that there is suffering elsewhere. Yes, these stunts and Hollywood elite only pay lip service to politics and suffering and the condition of humanity — but so do we most of the time. Save the scorn for hypocrites and politicians; the joke is on you if you ever believed that these shows are supposed to fill a humanitarian void.
