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89. Let Us Now Praise Famous Douchebags
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There’s too much fame everywhere, a false fluorescent stain on every face. In this Earth Riot, we recall those who earned good fame. And we badly need a new public figure for our self-induced apocalypse.
Consumerized fame, the monetizing of reputations - isn’t just a distraction. Commercial fame isn’t just lots of celebrities - manufactured flesh products. Fame is one product, one forever chemical, like CO2 burning and flooding the last of the living. The well-known people who appear in our half hour are Muhammad Ali, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Judy Collins, Victor Jara, Stephen Sondheim, John F. Kennedy, Nelson Mandela, Greta Thunberg, Maya Lin, Rodney King.
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