The shallow, hollow, and vacuous people keep winning in the status, power, and wealth game [see photo]. Often vacuous people attribute their good fortune to luck. But luck is not a random factor in this game of fame, fortune, and influence. Then again... I could be wrong - I may be completely wrong because biological evolution has not weeded out the vacuous it has rewarded their DNA with more and more progeny. Thus we have come to the middle of this current year with the vacuous in charge all around the world. The vacuous are now major influencers at Spotify [ask Joe Rogan], they run the White House [ask the janitors], and they control the "cool" content on most social networks [ask all the TikTok groupies feted by Obama at his big Birthday bash].
These vacuous people are all around us and the cool thing about them is they are often so hard to dislike. We know they are vacuous and yet we tolerate a lot from them. After all it is some sort of DNA malfunction that has led to the fact that they share this world with us. I tend to understand the vacuous because I am one of them: well in my worse moments, at least, I am one of them. When I was in politics [back in my misspent youth] one of my staff once described me a chameleon. I have often ponder that comment because she gave it no context. Today I assume that she meant that I was able to shape shift and thus to become one them - the vacuous mob - if and when required. As my defence against that barb I tend think that I have a strong character, personal integrity, and a rational mind... ha, ha, ha.
The world of instant celebrity is full of vacuous people. And often it seems that the more vacuous one is the more likes one gets on social media. The vacuous find success in these times because they lack vision, independence, purpose, and consistency. They are flexible. They are malleable. And they display a great ability to talk about issues not solutions. Issues can be handled by them because they talk in sweeping generalities [they rave on and on about the world ending within the next decade due to horrific impact of Climate Change] and so they are rarely pinned down to address the possible solutions to any issue they might raise. This means they are always on your side and always on the winning side. Because they exercise power through influence they often gather some non-vacuous sorts around them and it is these people who do the heavy lifting for them. When any of these heavy lifters is no longer required he or she is dumped.
The one major downside to being, or to becoming, a vacuous person is that he or she can never be happy, trusted, or gain any real sense of achievement from their rise from over there to over here. The DNA of the vacuous does not to include a genome twist for solitude and so these folks must always be surrounded by groupies to crowd-out the vacuum that lurks at the core of their inane existence [think Obama].
Why biological evolution continues to favour such a vacuous stain of humans remains a truly perplexing mystery to me.
Richard
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