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I think this is just bungling everyone who is famous into the same bag and calling them crap.
I think that the opinions of high-profile people are not necessarily more important. But sometimes they have a point and they do good things. I think it's good to take your celebrity and try and do something positive with it. So long as that's what they're trying to do.
I also thing it's unfair to automatically assume that all celebrities are air heads and having nothing minimally intelligent to say. They're still people like the rest of us.
I don't think you have to experience all kinds of suffering first hand to be able to help people in that particular situation. There's a difference between trying to help and have other peoples' voices heard, from a third person point of view, and actually getting up and assuming that you know what those people have gone through and speaking as one of their own, which I think is not what most of the "celebrities" are doing.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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