There are many things I don’t understand and and I’m happy to admit this but something I really don’t get is the obsession with celebrity that has taken over the world in the last x number of years.
Maybe many people have always been obsessed but with the proliferation of modern forms of media this, for me, has become seriously unhealthy.
But what freaks me out the most is the fact that people continue to follow and like people they know full well have done bad things.
Take Chris Brown for instance. Now before he beat up some singer called Rhianna I hadn’t heard of him. Then he beat her up showed little sign of remorse and moved on with his his life. I just saw an advert on television saying he is playing shows in Australia.
Yup, people are paying to go see someone who beat up a defenseless woman.
What should happen, in a sane world, is that he would turn up on stage and the only people in the crowd are victims of spousal abuse who throw eggs and rotten fruit at him. What actually happens is that thousands of teenagers and younger all head along and watch him sing and dance and look up to him.
What kind of an example is that for youngsters today that men who beat up women are still idolized simply because they can sing or dance or play sports or something.
These people should be vilified.
They should be hounded out of their industry.
But they don’t they continue to make money and keep doing what they are doing. Why, as a species, do we not all turn our back on these people? Until they actually feel remorse for what they have done.
It’s weird I feel like the examples being set by a lot of adults these days are sending some crazy messages to the next generation. Even looking at Lady Gaga’s shows and many others. They are highly sexualised but filled with kids under 10.
Anyone under the public eye needs to realize that kids look up to them and that the things they do will get reported and be seen my millions.
It’s a sad state of affairs when those in positions of power don’t realize the power they wield.
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