There are millions of you paying to go see a handful, or one, of them. They don’t want to see you, the individual, but you want to see them badly. They have power, but you don’t except as a part of the crowd that they control. One individual bee does not matter to a beekeeper, and you the member of an adoring audience numbering into the thousands, don’t matter either. You are faceless.
People with that kind of power have to arrogant because everything in their lives show them to be better than each of you. They have more money, they get more attention, they have less stress. You give of your wages to make them more wealthy in return for a few hours around a stage with them on it. They have to see themselves as gods because you keep telling them that that’s what they are.
Do you seriously think that any act of kindness that they perform is not done purely for their own benefit? Do you think that Madonna seriously gives a shit about the anonymous worker-ants, the nameless cattle that get caught under her stage? The only bad thing about this for her is the potential for lawsuits and the inevitable bad publicity. I am not sure she is wrong. When people abase themselves they have to expect to be seen in that way, to be judged as less than.
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