Hollywood making sense?

Finally, an actor who doesn't have his head so far up his ass that he can't realize when something/someone is utterly pointless.

For my money, the Dalai Lama is right up there with the Pope, Cornell West, and anything run by the United Nations. They might not actually DO anything or have any coherent, meaningful ideas, but people will fall all over themselves trying to praise these people to make themselves look intellectual.

Saying we need religious tolerance is not brilliance. It's stating the obvious. Saying that racism is bad is not ground-breaking. It's the staus quo. Saying we need to end world hunger is not intellectual. It's common sense.

True brilliance is getting people to stop strapping bombs to themselves and blowing up followers of other religions. True brilliance is making people realize that racism is an ignorant, pointless emotion. And true brilliance comes from proposing and enacting a viable way to end world hunger.

When someone comes along and does this, THEN we can worship the ground they walk on. But in the meantime, can we please stop pretending that stating the obvious is some sort of noble, intellectual practice?

Hey, I bet if we could get it to rain more, there wouldn't be any more draughts on the planet. Ooh! I figured out a problem! Worship me!

If we could just figure out a way to kill a virus, we could cure AIDS! I'm the smartest man alive! Give me a Nobel Prize!

If Muslims didn't hate non-Muslims, there'd be less terrorism! Why hasn't anyone thought of this before?!

I think you get the point. It's stupid.