I wasn't talking about "Silicone Valley" -- but instead people likely to carry a Screen Actors Guild card and think of a credit card as something at the end of a film. Porno? It probably attracts people seeking to get away from dysfunctional families as a way of survival. Daddy let Uncle Perv teach her how to use her body to get little favors... If one studied drama and find that the only openings are in porn or either Little Theater or school-teaching in the Midwest, one goes back to the Midwest rather than do porn. If you are talking about legitimate screen or stage actors, then they fit some of the patterns of techies:
They are also perfectionists and they make good money. But I could have also compared them to school teachers who don't make great pay. I have little idea about the people in porn except that they are usually messed up. The immigrants? They know where the future lies, and the good future requires above-average formal education.
Quote:1. They are well educated. A high level of formal education used to be a proxy for Republican voting (look at the electoral map of the 1950s for President); such is no longer so. The States that Eisenhower lost in either 1952 or 1956 included the least-educated States in America even if that meant that he would win Massachusetts and Minnesota. In 2012 Obama did not win any state that Eisenhower didn't win twice.
2. They strongly support formal education. If their kids are to stay in California and not be retail clerks or restaurant workers who must stay in the family McMansion because they cannot find work that can pay enough to live on, then they will need a high level of education.
3. They are very liberal on inter-ethnic sex. Many are in mixed-race marriages, even if the mix is 'only' white-and-Asian.
4. They are unlikely to be fervent Christians.
5. They like Big Government to keep the environment livable. They are environmentalists, and they see no reason for their environments to become moonscapes like former strip mines in Appalachia.
6. They do not see cheap labor so much as a boon as a blight, the antithesis of the GOP. Much like most screen actors in southern California they are more concerned with the common people being able to buy their product than with keeping costs down.
They are also perfectionists and they make good money. But I could have also compared them to school teachers who don't make great pay. I have little idea about the people in porn except that they are usually messed up. The immigrants? They know where the future lies, and the good future requires above-average formal education.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.