Why do some fall for Celebrity?

BettyM

I suppose I have to make a confession, and that is that I have never understood what is called the celebrity culture. What others see in it has always been a mystery, and how someone becomes a celebrity equally a mystery.

The first and pretty obvious thing, about celebrity culture is that it’s a fraud. What we think we know about celebrities is usually not true, and is more often put out by their PR agents as information which is likely, in some way, to keep them in the limelight and further their career as a celebrity. It’s a conspiracy with the press who need on this stuff to fill many pages, with the PR agents who need to further the career of their celebrity to keep getting paid, and the celebrity themselves who is more often than not a non entity whose ego and bank accounts are kept filled just as long as they remain in the celebrity spotlight.

Thus we have threads here like “Sile Seoige talks of cancer battle”. Why she wants to talk about it seems uncertain, and why cancer is more of a battle than, for example, a heart attack or ‘flu is not explained. Is her battle helped by talking about it to whatever media outlet or outlets she talked to? We simply are not told, and one is left with the impression that it’s all to keep her in the “celebrity” spotlight. However, as celebrities go, she’s pretty low down the food chain.

Other thread titles here are Chris Brown assaults Rihanna. Rudest celeb you've met? , Has Beyonce given birth? ,
Westlife crooner Mark Feehily can't sing.; Noel Gallagher's story is like Robbie Williams
BEYONCE GETS DYED!! Brian McFadden and on and on it goes. We al k now what happened to Charlotte Church because she refused to play ball with the press, and I can’t help wondering why anyone has the slightest interest in what the PR agents want them to believe about the lives of various celebrities, which usually has nothing at all to do with the actual lives of celebrities.

I read recently in, I think, the New Yorker that we are living in a post Christian era in the West, and how wonderful it would be if only we were also heading towards a post celebrity era. I can remember a time when celebrity was a title bestowed on someone who had achieved something wonderful, but in our era celebrity is bestowed on some for simply being foulmouthed and crass, as it was in the case of Jane Goody, surely a low point in the celebrity culture.


Why does anyone with a reasonably well working brain fall for all this nonsense, which isn’t even real?

xzanti

BettyM wrote: »

It’s a conspiracy

Conspiracy Theories forum is thataway >>>>

Thank you.