What is peoples' obsession with the rich and famous? Is it because they are symbols of everything that we might achieve one day? Is it because people so bored with their own lives that they live the glamour life vicariously through the RAF? Why do people buy magazines about them or obsess over their movies or buy their products? What is it about human nature that makes us instinctively rally around somebody RAF and make them even more RAF? What's in it for us? Gratification when we see them succeed even more?
I find it all so, illogical... and silly... and shallow.
Centuries ago it was royalty, then it became politicians, now it's becoming celebrities. Why do we do this to ourselves? Why can't we content ourselves with what we have, and work hard at making it better for ourselves and those in need? What is the benefit, other than amusement of the poor and the desperate in this completely perverted version of Robin Hood, or this passive-aggressive attempt to destroy our society by rotting it from the inside out?
On this note, the teaser for Mel Gibson's Apocalypto had an applicable quote, something like: "A civilization can only be conquered from the outside when it has already been destroyed from within."
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