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here is a text i found interesting.
"There are, of course, other less violent forms of the popular unrest. There is the passion for movement and speed, expressed especially in the veritable cult of the automobile (we have already noted this passion in Hitter); the universal appeal of television and cinema, whose most frequent function is to provide a few hours of escape from reality, both by their eclectic and "exciting" subject-matter and by the hypnotic effect of the media themselves; the increasingly primitive and savage character of popular music and of the perhaps more authentic expression of the contemporary soul, "jazz", the cult of physical prowess in sport, and the morbid worship of "youth" of which it is a part; the prevalence of and general permissiveness towards sexual promiscuity, condoned by many supposedly responsible elders as indicative of the "frankness" of contemporary youth and as being merely another form of the "open," "experimental" attitude so much encouraged in the arts and sciences; the disrespect for authority fostered by a popular attitude that sees no values but the "immediate" and "dynamic" and leads the most "idealistic" of youth into demonstrations against "repressive" laws and institutions.

In such phenomena "activity" is clearly an escape--an escape from boredom, from meaninglessness, and most profoundly from the emptiness that takes possession of the heart that has abandoned God".

you can find the whole text here: http://www.oodegr.com/english/filosofia/nihilism_root_modern_age.htm

There have been a lot of celebrities that have been rightly accused of and gotten fines/or jailed for their crimes (and sometimes just gotten off with the aid of an expensive lawyer) whether that be toward animals, wo/men, general violence, murder, drug related abuse, physical assault... you name it. Do you still buy their music/movie tickets/go to their games/generally keep supporting them or no?

Which sounds the most like how you feel about them after you find out it's true. Are you still giving them your money and supporting them? Why?