Privilege in America

I just watched this program on 20/20. I have to say that although I already knew most of what they had to say, it still angered me to hear it. It makes me sick to see the kind of privileges that celebrities and athletes get. The fact that they can murder and rape and be completely absolved of guilt is both disgusting and frightening. I would like to propose here and now that we put a cap on the salary and benefits receivable by athletes and celebrities. There is no reason that they should be paid millions upon millions for something that they supposedly do for the sake of "art" or "love for the game". I also disagree with the inner-city mentality that professional sports is often the only viable future amongst the under-privileged. Frankly, it's the dumbest thing I've ever heard. People are always looking for an easy way out. If one person in the world got rich off eating fried chicken wings for a living, you can bet that there will be a thousand others dying of heart disease trying to do the same thing with with their last greasy poulrified breath.

In my opinion, athletes and celebrities are not so significantly different from us that they deserve all these advantages in life. In fact, a great many of them aren't even decent people. There are countless celebrities every year who escape the justice system that should have been jailed long ago. Why should an ignorant rhino get treated like a hero just because he can crush his helmet into some other shmuck's chest? How does his participation in a primitive game of pseudo-warfare contribute in any way to the future of our world? Finally, are we, as a society, to blame for elevating them to such nose-bleed heights, for praising their every little acheivement as if they were deities amongst us mere mortals? I can assure you that while we may not hold 100% of the blame, our hands are anything but clean. As a nation of slobbering fans hungrily devouring every morsel of star-studded gossip fed to us by the media, we've become the breeders of our own subjects of envy. We are the creators of our own gods and demons.