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bipolarber -> RE: Britney taken to hospital again... (1/31/2008 11:26:34 AM)
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I have this theory about why people seem to be so interested in Ms. B.S....:
As a society, America doesn't have a set of "royals" which we look to as our leaders, or whom we kind of consider to be our "higher family." Instead, we have celebrities. We look on THEM as a kind of societal family. Sort of a real life soap opera, if you will. No one needs to have any particular talent to be a celebrity, they only need to somehow fulfill a niche in our concept of an archtype.
Paris Hilton: spoiled rich brat slut.
O.J. Simpson: Rich guy who got away with murder.
Britiney Spears: the trailer trach cousin who's always in trouble.
Michael Jackson: uber rich weirdo who gets away with child molestation.
The cop who killed his GF, for the second time.
Etc., etc...
They all add up to a sort of real life (if you can call it that) soap opera. Celebrity worshipers love it. Other, normal people, just look on it, shake their heads and count themselves lucky that they are in their humdrum, everyday lives.
Has anyone else read the book "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Phillip K. Dick? In that book, everyone in the future is watching this character on TV, who leads a crappy, tortured life. People empathize with him. "As bad as everyday life gets, at least I'm not as bad(or as much of a total fuckup) as the guy on TV." I think that sort of figure is emerging in Ms. B.S. She and the other celebrities are really meant as a sort of bread and circuses, a distration, from how bad things are getting. The War of Lies, the economy that's about to implode, the skyrocketing crime rate, the fact that your salary isn't coming even close to keeping up with the rising cost of living... so we turn over to news about Ms. B.S., (and the others) just to escape the light of the oncoming train for a short time.
Just my $0.02... I could be full of crap.
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