make for strange but helplessly entangled bedfellows. Like a snake eating its own tail, stars become statesmen and the converse, in a feedback loop that has left us with action stars in Congress; a slew of former Governor ER Ejercito’s technically ambitious, though somewhat vain, movies; and actor and former President, Erap Estrada.
In this untamed new world, the lines are blurrier. A star doesn’t need to be a politician to become political, and the average Joe doesn’t need much beyond the zeitgeist to “cancel” them if they say or do something offensive. Just as communication was democratized, so has power. The quantitative impacts of these boycotts are hard to determine. Were the boycotters part of the target audience to begin with? Were the movies any good? Was the marketing effective? A lot of input go into the success of a project, but that is the point: a lot of input, a lot of, make a project.
These are immortal debates – where free speech ends, whether or not artistic genius can mitigate its makers’ transgressions, and how many “civilian casualties” are acceptable in “punishment.” All the answers will cut to the quick, because it will always hurt to weigh your values and give up one for the other. The answers, therefore, will always be highly personal.a responsibility. It ends where speakers spew out lies, endanger other people, or enable those who do.
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