ENTERTAINERS;
CELEBRITIES

In olden days they crowned the king and tied a cap and bell on the court fool; today we crown the fool and tie a tin can on the king.…

It is surely an incredible state of affairs when the entertainer rates higher in public esteem than the doctor, the nurse, the teacher and the statesman upon whose shoulders rest the hopes of whole generations of men. Yet it is so today in our ostensibly civilized society. In America the court fool now wears the crown and rules over the minds of millions of chortling subjects who want nothing higher or better in this life than to kick off their shoes and spend an evening of howling mirth over the hoary chestnuts dished out by the current royal jester, whoever he may happen to be.…

Yes, we have crowned the fool and spurned the real kings among us: The farmer who toils for us from sunup to sundown, the teacher who gets old and tired trying to make ladies and gentlemen out of the boys and girls we place in their care, the doctor who brought those boys and girls into the world and who stands to watch over their health while they grow up, the corner policeman who brings at least a semblance of safety to our streets, the soldier whose blood has bought our American soil a hundred times during the years of our history, the patriotic statesman who labors to make and keep our country free. These are underpaid, overlooked and generally tolerated while the court fool struts about over the world as if he were a king indeed instead of the cheap jester that he is.

Isaiah 5:11–12; Ephesians 5:3–4

The Warfare of the Spirit, 17, 18, 19.