The Oscars are back. Yay. Get the champagne. Get the fancy clothes. It is time to watch rich people give each other gold statues for being very sad about things they do not understand. This year, the big trend is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It is very trendy. It is the new fashion. People in five-thousand-dollar shoes want to talk about suffering. It makes them feel deep. It makes them feel like they are more than just pretty faces with no thoughts.

Tunisia sent in a movie called 'The Voice of Hind Rajab.' It is about a little girl. She died in a war zone. It is a real story. It is a horrible story. But in Hollywood, it is not a tragedy. It is a submission. It is a contender. It is something you talk about over a salad that costs as much as a car payment. To the Academy, a dead child is just a great way to win a trophy. They love a good cry as long as they can go to an after-party with an open bar immediately after.

The people who run the Oscars love this stuff. They love to feel like they are part of history. They sit in their air-conditioned rooms. They watch the worst moments of a person's life on a big screen. Then they check a box on a ballot. They think they are helping. They are not helping. They are just watching. It is like being a tourist at a car crash. Except the tourist takes a selfie and the Academy takes a statue. It is gross, but this is the world we live in.

Let us talk about the Left. They will go crazy for these movies. They will talk about representation and voice. They will post on social media. They will feel very proud of themselves for watching a movie. They think watching a film is the same as doing work. It is not. It is sitting on your couch. They love the pain of others because it gives them a reason to act like they care. But they do not want to fix anything. If they fixed the world, they would have nothing to cry about on camera next year. They need the misery to stay relevant.

Then you have the Right. They will hate these movies for all the wrong reasons. They will not even watch them. They will just see the title and start screaming. They think everything is a plot. They think every movie is woke garbage. They do not care about the kids in the war either. They just want to fight. They want to yell at the TV. They want to feel like they are the only ones who know the truth. They are just as dumb as the people they hate. It is a contest to see who can be the most annoying person on the internet.

The movie business is a giant machine. It eats tragedy and poops out profit. There are four movies this year about this conflict. Four. That is a lot of visions. Do you know what those visions have in common? They all make money for someone who is not in a war zone. They all help some director get a better agent. They all help some producer buy a second home in the hills. The actual people in the conflict are still there. They are still hurting. But the movie people have moved on to the next project.

Think about the leaders on both sides of that war. The politicians. The guys in charge. Do you think they care about a movie? No. They love the war. The war keeps them in power. It gives them money from other countries. They use the bodies of people to build their own thrones. They are the biggest grifters of all. They do not want the movies to stop. They want the movies to keep coming because it keeps the world looking at a screen instead of looking at their bank accounts. They are all in on the joke. The only people not laughing are the ones in the ground.

Humanity is a mess. We take a girl's death and we make it a category. 'Best International Feature.' That is what we have become. We are a species that likes to watch. We like to see things break. As long as it is far away. As long as the lighting is good. As long as there is a sad song playing in the background. We have replaced empathy with entertainment. We do not want peace. We want a good story.

The Oscars are not about art. They are not about truth. They are about the ego. They are about a bunch of people who think they are the center of the universe. They think that by picking a movie about a war, they are stopping it. They are not. The war does not care about your gold statue. The people dying do not care about your red carpet. The only winners are the people who sell the ads for the show. The only losers are the people who actually have to live in the movies we watch for fun.

So, go ahead. Watch the show. See who wins. Maybe the movie from Tunisia will get the prize. Maybe the people in Hollywood will feel like they saved the world. They did not. They just made a nice night for themselves. And we are all just as bad for watching it happen. It is a joke. And the punchline is us.