November 22, 2007 at 4:03PM Pop culture can bugger off
This kind of crap [via] is what will eventually turn me into a bitter misanthrope. Sure, popular culture’ll eat itself, but it’ll then shit itself out, and the cycle will begin again.
Why should we care about these people? That’s what I don’t get. What have they ever really done of worth? Not enough people are willing to admit it, but “celebrity” gossip is just a modern freak show that lets us gawp without feeling bad about ourselves. It’s a cruel and voyeuristic form of entertainment that devalues us all because when somebody is a famous for being famous and nothing more, their “worth” comes from the degree to which they manage to screw up their lives and the lives of those around them, not from actually achieving something or pushing themselves to be better than they are. They’re no longer human in the eyes of the masses that buy this junk, just another soap opera character to follow.
Please, let’s just let it die. Is it really so much to ask that people be celebrated on their merits rather than how entertaining their self-destruction is?
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