Lars Walker has placed a very insightful comment on my post on recent Hollywood movies, immediately below, and I’m copying it here to ensure that you won’t miss it:

It occurs to me that one reason so many Hollywood personalities are becoming intensely political is that it’s a form of Indulgences (in the medieval Catholic sense).

Stars, directors and producers know that their real job is to make stories about actual human life. And they know in their hearts of hearts that they don’t have a clue how regular people live.

But politics is their Indulgence. "I must understand what life is all about, because I actively support all the True and Good causes. I stand for the People, even if I don’t know any."