Jive 45 - Celebrity, Not Glory, Wins The Land Comments

'Martin Heidegger was right in holding that, in contemporary life, celebrity, which almost never has anything to do with heroic deeds, has eclipsed true glory. In the United States, mediocre clever people like Donald Trump or Ronald Reagan, who do evil and often support evil, bask in celebrity. Intimate sordid details of their banal and often bizarre lives help sell newspapers and television programs. When the unbridled veneration of celebrity reigns unchallenged, as is quite common in the United States and in all other Western democracies, stupidity has triumphed. Thinking has vanished, as has wisdom.'
- from Fighting Evil: Unsung Heroes in the Novels of Graham Greene
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