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Why Do We Treat Celebrities Like Experts? | Rabbi Orlofsky

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Rabbi Dovid Orlofsky

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An actor has lines written for him by writer. And there's a director standing over me saying, "No, say it like this. Stay like that. Stand this way. Stand this way." So at the end of the day, the guy stands the way the director tells him to and reads the lines that the writer wrote for him, and everyone says, "The man is a genius. Give that man an award." But then he's suddenly an expert in politics. And every dopey actor, suddenly their opinion counts. What do they know about politics? What do they know about morality? What do they know about the world? What do they know about science? And somehow we think actors suddenly your opinion counts on anything.