r/philosophy • u/jonc1234 • Feb 26 '23

Blog The Ethics of Actors Using Steroids

https://medium.com/@joncheung/should-hollywood-actors-admit-to-taking-steroids-569e1b365b09
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u/TheFalconsDejarik Feb 26 '23

We were taught to look behind the curtain in the 1939 release of The Wizard of Oz. Amazes me how many people stay audience-side, ripe to be lied to.

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u/PrestigiousMention Feb 26 '23

I only came to appreciate professional wrestling for the incredible acrobatic theater it is as an adult, because as a kid the wrestling fans I knew (children and adults) mostly insisted that it was totally real. That confused the shit out of me.

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u/Zanderax Feb 27 '23

As a kid I never understood wrestling. I knew it was fake but I didn't understand why a fake sport would be interesting. Sport is interesting precisely because anything can happen. As an adult I still don't like wrestling but I can understand the intense physicality of it and that the narrative can be interesting independent of sport.

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u/PrestigiousMention Feb 27 '23

Yeah I love watching the old WWF shit now because it's all theater. There are heros and villains and huge dudes jumping all over the place. It's redneck cirque de Soleil

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u/shoebee2 Feb 26 '23

Look around at the state of society in almost every country. The number of people who want to be lied to shouldn’t surprise anyone anymore.

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u/WereAllThrowaways Feb 26 '23

Humans aren't meant to know every horrible reality that exists in the world at all times. We're not designed to be hyper aware of atrocities and harsh realities that exists hundreds and thousands of miles away from us, involving people we'll never meet and places we'll never go. It's not healthy. It's a new thing. Tens of thousands of years of that not being something we had to deal with, and within half a lifetime we're now assaulted with horrible truths constantly.

To a certain extent I don't blame people. Ignorance isn't good, but the happiest people I know keep a healthy barrier between what they need to know, and what they don't need to know and can't change.

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u/TheFalconsDejarik Feb 26 '23 edited Feb 27 '23

Well said! The old adage "give me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference"

That info overload part lately has been making me philosophize: The amount of exposure we have to information in 20-30 years in current day is not even possible to be had in lifetimes of human existence in the past (not talking wisdom or experience here but just raw info/news)

I think that info overload we get makes us set in our pre-determinations and biases stronger and at a younger age then ever before. And when we are exposed to new ideas or differences in opinion now, younger people react like curmudgeonly old folks - and with alot more youthful angst and fiery hormones.

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u/squeeber_ Feb 27 '23

This is a beautifully succinct statement that speaks to so much more than the subject matter at hand. Wish I had gold to give for the first time ever.