rant · moment 19 of 21
How Blackmail Used to Run Hollywood
from A Christmas K-Hole | The Tim Dillon Show #374 · #374
2 min
Tim argues Hollywood used to function through sexual blackmail keeping stars in line, but a new generation of self-made, internet-famous sociopaths no longer need the old studio system to control them.
- Sociopathy has always existed, but Hollywood once had a top-down paramilitary structure where the biggest sociopaths controlled the smaller ones.
- Tim argues we've raised an entire generation of sociopaths who don't need institutional gatekeepers because they believe fame has intrinsic value.
- Kids with phones and MacBooks can bypass the old system where Hollywood locked stars in a castle on a hill and forced them to toe the line.
- The institution would control celebrities by forcing them to appear on morning shows, stand awkwardly next to Hillary Clinton while 10,000 Maniacs plays.
- Tim doesn't care that there's no coming back from this; he sees it as natural that things must die for new things to live.
- The people left in Hollywood are either on ketamine in the valley getting injected with drugs or flying to Peru to drink ayahuasca, unable to admit it's over.
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