Everything revolves around New York City and Los Angeles, ignoring all the people in between those two cities. These awards shows - who gives a crap? But we are led to care, and led to believe everyone cares, because those are the people who are on TV or the movies and have the highest visibility, therefore the biggest megaphones.
I was going somewhere with this but got distracted, so I'll add more commentary later. But my train of thought is that our entire popular culture in this country is based on two cities that most Americans have never even been to, and strangers on TV that nobody even knows.
I was going somewhere with this but got distracted, so I'll add more commentary later. But my train of thought is that our entire popular culture in this country is based on two cities that most Americans have never even been to, and strangers on TV that nobody even knows.