One of the benefits of not having cable is that you don't actually have any opportunity to stay abreast of what MTV is cooking up today. This show, where they send rich celebrities to third world countries to lecture us on how much better their lives are than ours, I guess in a moral sense, is just sick.
You have celebrities who common between fifteen and twenty million dollars per movie talking about how great it is to go take a dump in the woods, to use animal crap to plaster the walls of your house, and to have none of the modern "luxuries." You know, those luxuries like indoor plumbing and clean running water which played a key roll in increasing the life expectancy and public health in the first world countries.
As always, everyone has a moral mandate because some bimbo from Hollywood thinks that we should redo our civilization from the ground up to be more environmentally conscious like mud hut dwellers in rural Chile. Let's forgive them the irony that the South American poor are one of the leading reasons why the rain forests are being destroyed in large numbers.
Here's a thought. At $50/inspection, Drew Barrymore's salary of fifteen million dollars would provide a one time health inspection for 300,000 rural Chilean children. At $50/pill collection, Cameron Diaz's salary of twenty million dollars per film would provide basic antibiotics to 400,000 rural Chilean children. They don't even need to be rural Chilean children; they can be children from any developing country.
They're such compassionate, humane people that you won't see them donating all of their take home money from a single movie to charity because really, they need that money more than the families in the developing world that they are so enthralled by. It's just important they raise awareness of the issue. Taking initiative to solve the issue is for the little people who work nine to five.
The difference between "progress" and a hampster wheel is the latter at least burns calories
Two years too late.
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Angelina Jolie was one of these people trying to raise awareness. In fact she said that if you made 10 million from a movie you should donate 5 million. Jolie's next movie, Tomb Raider 2, made her 12 million. She donated $6 million for various things including orphanages and to rebuild a hospital among other things.
Here is another example of an artist (Sarah McLachlan) putting their money where their mouth is. Altho truly they go too fast and its a bit hard to keep track of it all, but the point is obvious.
Most celebrities rant and rave about charities as they walk around in over the top fashion and kick homeless people on the way to the studio.
Charity to celebrities is for them to part with the most luxurious of luxuries and take credit for it in the next putrid breath.
Hello hypocrits, that's called minimal living...( at least as far as you're concerned).
There are those of us who make minimum wage and give more per annual income than your vanity could ever survive. Shame on your pittant contributions and shame on the public who admires you for it.