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There are a lot of reasons for us to think that Bono is an abject and despicable individual. If you are fooled by what the television, the internet and the fake news network present to you, the facts and the events surrounding the terribly ordinary, but notorious U2 frontman are never what appearances may suggest. The reasons behind the man that seems to love African children, fight poverty and proclaim a battle for equality and justice are not exactly advocated by the motives you think they are. In fact, Bono has always been a master of well played theatrics and deceitful treachery, doing a real awesome work, as a mindful and unlawful trickster. But think just for a second. Do you know what Bono really loves? Let me follow with three simple words here: fame, notoriety and money. Behind the man that sometimes act as an ambassador of all the good fortunes, posing as the savior for the poor and the destitute, kissing popes, wandering by the White House with American presidents and meeting statesman from several countries, while he receives medals for acting as the paladin of humanitarian causes, you have in fact an egomaniac individual desperate for attention, that seeks with an absurd obsession his desire for global recognition. Bono is in fact a sordid opportunist of the worst kind, that never loses the chance to be exactly where he wants to be: at the center of the spotlight, receiving exclusive attention.
As most people known – although this doesn’t make a difference in anybody’s life – Bono is the singer of U2, an Irish band that has had worldwide fame, for more than three decades now. And let me be true and honest here: U2 is one of the most tedious and mediocre bands that the world has ever seen. But, despite the fact that this conclusion seems to be a contradiction, the mediocrity of U2 is one of the reasons for them to be so famous. U2 does rude, unsophisticated, boring, average, ordinary and superficial pop music, that literally serves for the masses, people who are exactly like U2: rude, unsophisticated, boring, average, ordinary and superficial. But going straight to the point, why a mediocre singer from a mediocre pop band, for quite a while now, has been hanging around the world so much, with so many politicians, especially American presidents?
Well, you know, like I wrote some lines above, this happens exactly because Bono loves the spotlight. He doesn’t know how to live without being the center of all attentions. And he will do everything in his power to achieve the level of recognition that he desperately wants. Whatever and whenever there is a camera on, Bono will run away very fast to appear right before ahead of it. If he can hug an African child before the photographer shoots a picture, he will do that. To hug a lot of politicians, and to proclaim words of hope, wisdom and faith seems to be his real expertise, way more than singing, if you ask me. But of course, he will always proclaim empty words of hope, wisdom and faith, that conveniently never translate into action. A tour at the White House was always at his disposition from the Bill Clinton administration onwards. He became very friendly with George Bush and Barack Obama as well (I don’t know if Trump will allow his privileges to continue, though). Now, ask yourself – or anyone who is fooled enough for being tricked by Bono’s humanitarian and political superficial theatre – how this have benefited the world exactly?
Well… the world hasn’t seen a milligram of benefits whatsoever, in any moment of Bono’s career as an attendant of fancy presidential dinners and extravagant political events. The only one who has advantages with all of these insanely comic acts is Bono himself. Why? Because he gets famous, and famous and famous, and photographers follow him wherever and whenever he goes, and he can deceive everybody by pretending to be an angelic emissary sent from heaven to save the world. This is exactly what he wants.
But the truth speaks for itself. There is a great gap between what Bono proclaims to defend, and how he really lives his life. For the ones who haven’t been informed, U2 relocated to The Netherlands some years ago to avoid taxes. Bono and his gang are multimillionaire bullshit rock stars, but they changed their country of affairs to avoid paying higher taxes. While Bono pretends to care and to protect and to defend the world, the poor, the homeless and the defenseless, shouting to everybody the importance to fight the systematic problem of poverty in Africa, his only real preoccupation is to get richer, and richer and richer. And the most unbelievable thing is that his attitudes really deceive naïve people, who really believe that he is some masculine version of Angelina Jolie (who, unlike Bono, is a true humanitarian activist). U2 has high financial risks and investments operations, but they have arranged everything for their costs to be the lowest possible, and the profits to be the highest. U2 is not a band, but a multimillion business enterprise – a category upon which the most famous bands in the world, like the Rolling Stones, Metallica and Aerosmith, to name just a few, could be included – and the priority on Bono’s agenda, as well as his band mates, is to keep the money flourishing, without a truce. Money is the only thing that really matters. Oh, and keeping up with the appearances too.
But the truth speaks for itself. There is a great gap between what Bono proclaims to defend, and how he really lives his life. For the ones who haven’t been informed, U2 relocated to The Netherlands some years ago to avoid taxes. Bono and his gang are multimillionaire bullshit rock stars, but they changed their country of affairs to avoid paying higher taxes. While Bono pretends to care and to protect and to defend the world, the poor, the homeless and the defenseless, shouting to everybody the importance to fight the systematic problem of poverty in Africa, his only real preoccupation is to get richer, and richer and richer. And the most unbelievable thing is that his attitudes really deceive naïve people, who really believe that he is some masculine version of Angelina Jolie (who, unlike Bono, is a true humanitarian activist). U2 has high financial risks and investments operations, but they have arranged everything for their costs to be the lowest possible, and the profits to be the highest. U2 is not a band, but a multimillion business enterprise – a category upon which the most famous bands in the world, like the Rolling Stones, Metallica and Aerosmith, to name just a few, could be included – and the priority on Bono’s agenda, as well as his band mates, is to keep the money flourishing, without a truce. Money is the only thing that really matters. Oh, and keeping up with the appearances too.
So, a man that really has enough money, the means, the influence and the power to make the difference choses only to speak, to meet politicians and to appear in front of the cameras, instead of giving up a generous amount of his abundant financial resources and taking action? If you don’t see a lot of things clearly wrong in this story, you should really open up your eyes. Bono only cares about money, medals, notoriety, distinctions, fame, money, more money, and of course, deceiving everybody to think that he is the savior of the world.
Wagner
Wagner
