The Roles of Actors and Spectators

Something I've been thinking about for a while now.

The more I look at the people around me the more I'm starting to realize that there are two very general groups of people in the world; there are the actors and there are the spectators. A spectator is your average Joe working nine to five, punching in and out working his button and driving the economy like proper cannon fodder. Spectators are, as a rule, passive, however the behavior of spectators can vary, and sometimes, briefly, a spectator can affect the world, or his current society as a whole. This is not normal and only happens in cases of extreme stress or danger (e.g. Lord of the Flies), because actors are usually the people who are first to act in a situation, hence their name. Actors are the people who we all know, and aspire to be. Movie stars, world leaders, firemen, spiritual icons, and so on, they are the people who regularly or greatly affect the world as we know it today, and thus they are our actors, the people that go out and try to change our world, not necessarily for the better though. It is only a natural reaction of the spectator to be envious of the actor, especially when the spectator is intelligent enough to see his own place in society compared to the actor. However I'm starting to believe that the spectator is perhaps just as, if not more, important that the actor in our society. Think about it actors are trying to change the world, or more commonly their own society, but how do they try to achieve this? Through the general public, or through the spectators of the land. The actors may lead, but it's the spectators they're leading, without them in the nine to fives the actors wouldn't be able to change the world and mold it until they were pleased. The actors are our conductors, but a conductor is nothing without his train.

I'll write more on this later, for now though, I need sleep.