I’m trying to understand the nearly universal lack of outrage coming from Hollywood over the brutal murder of Dutch director, Theo van Gogh, who was shot on the morning of November 2, while bicycling through the streets of Amsterdam. The killer then stabbed his chest with one knife and slit his throat with another.
Some attribute this lack of reaction to rampant cowardice in Hollywood, and that’s hard to dispute. But I wonder if it’s not also a psychological defense mechanism, where in discussing what “silencing of dissent” really looks like would it too obvious what a bunch of whiny posers most of Hollywood is.