The political opinions of certain artists aren't worth a damn

 The political opinions of people with strong ideological biases are worthless. They are worth less than the opinion of a random person passing by on the street. And there are plenty of artists—talented or not, fading or rising—who not only hold political views worth next to nothing but also love sharing them; they believe their fame and prestige (often exaggerated or objectively unearned) have the power to sway people's minds. While this belief is realistic, it is also depressing; ideally, no one should let others' opinions shape their own, yet many do. Furthermore, everyone should be able—even when seeking "second or third opinions"—to evaluate the quality of those views and the reliability of the sources. Consequently, the political opinion of a Brazilian artist who joined the "Save the Amazon" chorus during the fires that plagued the biome under the Bolsonaro administration—only to fall silent during the years of yet another Workers' Party (PT) government, when fires continued to destroy the same forest—is worth no more than anyone else's opinion. In fact, it may be worth even less, coming from someone who chose to participate in that circus—likely driven by the convenient moral narcissism of performing for an audience of the "right-thinking" crowd and those claiming to be on the "right side of history": the very people who have co-opted traditional institutions to echo messages rife with performative love, lies, and authoritarianism—not to mention the very capitalist perks that such "guest appearances" usually yield.