The sky is falling! But seriously, the modern form of our cult of celebrity is surely doing no one any favours. What I want to know is why, despite my deep dislike of Ms Hilton, I get that peculiar voyeuristic sense of desire meets disgust when I read about her on perez hilton. And why should I care about Britney's various hair removal schemes? Why oh why oh why? Time to tear my own eyes out. But I do care, like the rest of us, and I so wish I didn't care (I suspect also like the rest of us).I get exactly the same feeling when I see roadkill, for what it's worth.
I don't fault journalists for reporting this stuff. After all, we all want to read it. The trick is somehow to figure out why we want to read it in the first place, and find a way to substitute this for something higher in vitamins and minerals. I'd love to see a neuro-imaging map of someones brain as they watched celebrities.
Read about it on CNN.
3 comments:
you care about hair removal because all the women around you talk about it at length (or not, as the case may be) and you feel somehow like something is missing that you should know about, that you should be able to contribute to the conversation from a knowledgeable point of view ... or you're just perverse.
Can both be true?
in your case, i'm sure of it :)
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