Thursday, November 8, 2012

America's unhealthy obsession with celebrity

We've all been starstruck at some time, running into a celebrity whether your expecting it or not.  Your heart beats a little faster, adrenaline starts to take effect, legs start to shake a little, butterflies in the stomach, etc.  Celebrities are looked at as superior in some circles.  I have to ask why.  I've met several of my heroes and people who have influenced huge parts of my life and I can say it is very humbling.  My issue is when people take it too far.  While reading the ABC headline news stories, I came across an article that Kim Kardashian adopted a cat.  With all the turmoil in the world, our economy in ruin, the wars brewing and other topics that people need to be educated on, was this the best that this news organization could come up with?  A person who has become famous for getting porked on tape adopting a cat is going to somehow make my life better?  Don't get me started on Honey Boo Boo!  The white trash Shirley Temple has this country mesmerized.  I've been better entertained with a paddle and ball yet all you hear about is this train wreck of a family and their misadventures.  Am I missing something?  Every week our mail pours out every variety of tabloid you could think of.  The most appalling cover stories I see before rolling my eyes are the Teen Mom's.  My mom had me in her early teens and I don't recall anybody giving a hoot about what she wore to Denny's while getting breakfast.  The extremes that people will go through for 15 minutes of fame is sickening.  The way I see it, if the terrorists want to bring America to it's knees, hit Hollywood and leave New York alone.  Americans can live without an economy but i'm not quite sure what we would do without Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan.  These media whores break the law almost weekly but their fame keeps them out of jail and in the spotlight.  When your cousin Junebug gets busted smoking a joint...lock him up and throw away the key.  Another thing that pisses me off to no end is how we mourn the loss of our more popular counterparts for days and years while our truest americans are dying every day without any notice.  We pay teachers poorly while we pay hundreds of millions of dollars to people who can handle a basketball or football to the liking of the masses.  I write this while keeping in mind that I have a box full of autographs as trophies but I have never changed my mind or point of view or belief based on a celebrities opinion.  Wake up, people.  Whether Miley Cyrus cuts her hair or not, the bills are still due and life goes on.  I can go on and on but I gotta go,  I cant think straight until I find out what J lo ordered at Starbucks this morning.