Thursday, June 09, 2005

Tom Cruise's idiocy gets worse by the week.

Here's just a sampling of the nuggets of lunacy from his interview with Entertainment Weekly. The point of which was to, ahem, clean up after the other blunders.

You are aware that your views about psychiatry come across as pretty radical to a lot of people.
In the 1980s, you were supposed to say no to drugs. But when I say no to drugs, I'm a radical? 'He's against drugs — he's a radical! He's against electroshock treatments — he's a radical!' [Laughing] It's absurd!

Yeah, but Scientology textbooks sometimes refer to psychiatry as a ''Nazi science''...
Well, look at the history. Jung was an editor for the Nazi papers during World War II. [According to Aryeh Maidenbaum, the director of the New York Center for Jungian Studies, this is not true.] Look at the experimentation the Nazis did with electric shock and drugging. Look at the drug methadone. That was originally called Adolophine. It was named after Adolf Hitler... [According to the Dictionary of Drugs and Medications, among other sources, this is an urban legend.]

Well, Freud wasn't a Nazi, but the point I'm getting at here is that expressing these views isn't necessarily a public relations bonanza for you.
What choice do I have? People are being electric-shocked. Kids are being drugged. People are dying.
My personal favorite part is about how all his "facts" are complete bullshit. What a loser. This is the upshot of actors and their pseudointellectualism (a la Kate Hudson saying she didn't need to go to college because She Reads Books. Too bad we can't all be like her--self-motivatedly studious, I mean, not born richer than 99.999% of the world.) I recommend reading the full interview to see Tom's ironic comments about how he's gotta be who he is and he can't help but tell the world. How bout I tell the world you're gayer than gay. Actually the only person who seems not to have gotten that memo is Miss 26-year-old Virgin herself... which, by the way, even Joey gave it up man come on.

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