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Experts and Public Careers–Do I have to mention any names?

by Jane Juarez in Issues, February 11, 2007

A comment on public celebrity, the need for experts, and other commentary.

People who assume public careers need to have experts connected to them.

Many people go into public careers accompanied by many naive people, many naive friends, nobody has a clue, nobody understands anything, and they want to be public people.

Even the people who claim they are experts are a crude and rude bunch, and many of them there for the money also.

Of course, we admire a lot of these people. Many are honorable and great people. But they are so easily destroyed. And we so easily destroy them.

Sometimes people who do “have a clue” try to help them. But they don’t believe them. Or maybe they don’t know. Or maybe these people are not their “friends.” And these people cannot claim to be their “friends” because this is not their role, and they don’t truly know them, they cannot claim to truly know them. And the press is always interfering with that.

Most of these public figures because so many people join in betraying and destroying and insulting them don’t know who to trust. Even the people who befriend don’t know who to trust and/or even to trust them or not. We are a civilization of betrayed and betrayers. And the media betrays everybody also, including these outrageous journalists. So, of course, nobody trusts anybody else. And where money is involved–well, we all know about duh money. And most of us are in such desperate need for duh money. Because all of our cultures are based upon duh money.

As an autistic my world is very different from these people’s in that autistics develop many different ways of getting to know people, and the press doesn’t interfer with us as much as with many people–many so-called normal people who depend upon the press and media to even get to know their so-called friends.

Job description, class, grade level doesn’t interfer too much with us. But even autistics, as you know, can be a rude and crude bunch also. And autism disqualifies us from certain career choices. Few of us, for example, are going to be announcing our candidacy from president of any of your countries, although in their effort to gain credibility some autistics are trying to claim the great Albert Einstein and even the great Isaac Newton.

We are beginning to learn that we have many children in the autism spectrum, and autistics are claiming to have their own culture.

But as for these experts? These experts need not only to be available for the public careerists, but also for the various people who are connected to them who have problems vis-a-vis being connected to a public person.

Many of these people can be destructive and self-destructive as it involves themselves and each other.

The press and the media are continually interfering with them and their commitments.

There is a psychology of celebrity that everybody gets involved in, and many people who are not experts as it involves the public world. Many of these people are “small-town” people, small town girls and small town boys, true Americana (or other nation’s versions of the small town coming to America) that have stereotypical and archetypal dreams of celebrity, have notions of becoming the next Marilyn Monroe or the next Elvis Presley or the next Janis Joplin.

Or the next little Anna Nicole. I call her “little” Anna Nicole because of photographs of the child wanting to become the next Marilyn Monroe. But let me call her by her true name. Vickie Lynn Hogan. Little Vickie Lynn.

First, they should just be themselves, not try to become the next any of these people. They must decide who they are and who they want to be. Also, they must connect to people that truly know them, truly value them, and truly think they are great in their role. If these people do not think so, they can connect to them, but they also need to have experts who understand the behavior of all of these various peoples, so that if any of them have any problems–including social-psychological problems, and/or media problems then these people are available.

In addition, if people go into careers in which money is involved there are all kinds of resentments that come with money. Everybody knows that. People thinking that they are supposed to receive vast sums of money because of whatever type of connection they have to these people, and no amount appears to be enough for anybody. They have to deal with that.

Also there are a lot of resentful and frustration people that become fixated on stars all the time, including their friends, many of whom become very obsessive and oppressive in their friendship.

Everybody is accusing them of everything and they have to figure out how to prove things.

People are making all kinds of demands on them with the idea if they don’t or cannot fulfill demands that are generally impossible for anyone person that they have wronged a lot of people.

Even people that like them can behave so outrageously that they don’t know what to do about even those claiming they like them so much.

Also, it’s very easy for the press to even get dearest friends to turn against each other. Very very easy. Too very easy. Blaming the press is not always the answer. These people have to learn about the press and have their own media experts available to them.

The more and more people that you have destroyed in the public world and the more and more people that truly value these people the more and more people are going to be confronting this problem, and many people are not going to continue to be very nice about it.

Many people that go into public careers are naive, but many people who go into the public world are not stupid and naive people and there is a level of rage and outrage in this country that the media truly doesn’t yet understand. They probably do understand but think they have everything under control.

And most of these people that they destroy don’t have enough people that truly value them anyway and it’s easy to convince people that these people are not truly valuable.

So we just go on to the next Marilyn Monroe or the next Elvis Priestley or the next whoever.

These “innocents”–and I shall call them that–need to have people connected to them that are not innocent about this outrageousness that is witnessed.

Many intellectual types don’t go into the public arena because that’s not their arena and many of them are nerds and geeks and so that is not their world, but sometimes the people that are destroyed are very dear to them and so they are outraged!

I have stated that I am an elder. When I first came into this civilization as a child and witnessed many of my great people and great leaders and great talents being destroyed I happened to be a child and so I didn’t fully understand.

Every day these people are being discredited and we’re joining in discrediting them and maybe they are not as great as we thought or as

Now I am witnessing my “children” being detroyed. I am outraged!

I like to watch American Idol, but I don’t like witnessing these distressed “children.” I don’t truly find great pleasure in it. Especially these “children” who seem to truly not understand why they are being rejected and denied and told no from everybody. As an elder, I understand. Of course. I’ve been those rejected and denied “children.”

We are destroying and self-destructing all over this world and excusing ourselves. We’re all outrageous.

Even the warriors we send to war are our children and grandchildren. We indoctrinate them and then we send them to war. We’ve been doing this for centuries. Some of us go to war with them as their generals and leaders and advisors. We old warriors.

And of course we have our warrior heroes–the next Audey Murphy? The next Geronimo? The next Bruce Lee? The next Benito Juarez?

I haven’t written about the war, because I don’t think that is my role. I’m sure that there are autistics who go to war, and so they must write about what it is like for them. Being soldiers. They must write about war from their point of view, like all of these others.

Our children continue to tell us they are better than us–and what can we do but agree.

Of course many stars and public figures have a responsibility and we know this, as most of them are “adults,” but we help them to destruction and we know this also. We appear to delight in this. We are truly an obnoxious bunch.

Then we’re always looking around for somebody to blame–except for ourselves.

But these are our civilizations.

Have we civilized anybody yet?

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