Thinking of today's White House gathering of Ticktok 'influencers' and some videos I've been watching about cosmetic plastic surgery where the subjects were referred to as "celebrities and influencers."
Is this the dawn of the age of nondescript influencers whose only purpose is to implant the ideas of the ruling class on the illiterate public?
They're not statesmen or movie stars or musicians or actors or authors; they're not preachers or philosophers or inventors or shamans. They don't do anything at all except well, influence?
This seems so empty, what am I missing?
Just like the talking heads in the media have no skills. They read from a teleprompter or cue cards and tell you what someone else wrote. They make a ton of money being a parrot.
This is more what I was thinking. This isn't "the dawn" of talentless people being leveraged to spread a message. It is the latest iteration of it. Back when people trusted TV news, you had big name news anchors.
It's literally a Faustian Bargain. You can have all the fame and money that you want, all you have to do is sell your face and name to the narrative so it can use them to deceive the masses.
Another parallel would be pornstars. No soul, no talent, just a pretty face to be used to control people.