Saturday, February 06, 2016
Extinction
There are elitist groups and then there are elitist groups; one often leads to the other.
Long time members of any group try to hold on to power. One way, of many, to do this is to tightly control the admission process. Guard and watch the gates.
Of course, cutting some slack here, it is a natural process and one which doesn't really require a lot of maintenance. Those in the know know who is to be in the know and let in. Even the old church sewing circles did this. My mother was a bit of an outsider (she had a loose tongue and spoke her mind) and so I saw her bump up against the elite. She and others formed an anti-elite women's group which did pretty well for awhile but then little by little the old biddies won and snuffed the upstarts out.
The Motion Picture Academy is like that. Thus the kerfluffle over the Oscars and their lily white biases.
Why the Film Academy’s Diversity Push Is Tougher Than It Thinks
It is pretty interesting to read not because anyone, or at least I, give a shit about the Oscars any more but how an elitist group is on the road to extinction through the bias of its membership.
It would seem that a lot of this is innocent or at least built in. They only admit so many and once in, never out. So they have a bunch of old farts manning the gates.
Let me tell you, there is no group more adept at manning the gates than an old fart.
Good luck to them.
In the meantime other award shows and organizations are taking precedence. The Globes, the guilds.
