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Celebrities

Endymion
over 6 years ago

I don't think I 'get' celebrity culture. 

I can think of some actors who are (fairly) consistently good at playing a diverse range of characters, if I hear they're in a movie I might consider watching it for that reason, but I don't think I'd be particularly interested in meeting them / having something signed by them / owning something they once did, or any of the other things I hear of people doing re. celebrities. Similarly singers / musicians, authors, scientists, or any others. 

I would be interested to speak to some authors about a book of theirs I might have read, or scientists about their work, but I think only if I happened to meet them. I cannot imagine travelling across the country specifically for that purpose! Most of the people I would REALLY like to talk to about their field of work are historical figures anyway. I just have no interest in them as generalised people, it's their work / whatever they're probably famous for, that I'd be interested to talk to them about and I can't understand why I would be interested in a 'selfie' with them! 

Do others here feel like that? 

I have met some famous people and ... they were just people, of course. With some, not all, it was a surprise to see them but I didn't think of stopping to chat with them or anything. Seeing them was an interesting aside to the day but I felt the exact same thing when I took my daughter to see 'Santa Claus'. I do admire certain people for the things they have done but, again, the same can be said for many of the people I see on a regular basis and they're not famous at all. I'd go to a concert to hear someone I admire but I wouldn't think to hang around after on the off chance I might see them - what for? It puzzles me.     

Parents
  • over 6 years ago

    There's celebrities, and then there's celebrities.  It's the people who are famous for simply being famous who really get me.  The kind who have to revitalise their ailing career by going on stupid reality shows and submitting themselves to indignities.  Much of this 'famous for the sake of it' thing came about as a result of things like Big Brother, where totally useless egotists made pratts of themselves because it was the only thing they could do to get their stupid faces on the telly. 

    But then there are the people who are rightly famous for doing interesting and valuable things.  Artists, actors, writers, scientists.  And people who dedicate their lives to important causes, such as famine relief (though not Mother Teresa, who was an awful woman).  I'd like to meet people like Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King, Dickens, Shakespeare.  Those kinds of people.  Informally, too, like over a drink in a bar (Gandhi probably would have been a problem there!).  These are people whose lives mean something in the grander scheme, and who make a difference.  They leave their mark on the world and leave it maybe a better place.

    But Katie Price?  Kim Kardashian?  All that lot?  Forget it.  Dross.

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  • over 6 years ago

    There's celebrities, and then there's celebrities.  It's the people who are famous for simply being famous who really get me.  The kind who have to revitalise their ailing career by going on stupid reality shows and submitting themselves to indignities.  Much of this 'famous for the sake of it' thing came about as a result of things like Big Brother, where totally useless egotists made pratts of themselves because it was the only thing they could do to get their stupid faces on the telly. 

    But then there are the people who are rightly famous for doing interesting and valuable things.  Artists, actors, writers, scientists.  And people who dedicate their lives to important causes, such as famine relief (though not Mother Teresa, who was an awful woman).  I'd like to meet people like Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King, Dickens, Shakespeare.  Those kinds of people.  Informally, too, like over a drink in a bar (Gandhi probably would have been a problem there!).  These are people whose lives mean something in the grander scheme, and who make a difference.  They leave their mark on the world and leave it maybe a better place.

    But Katie Price?  Kim Kardashian?  All that lot?  Forget it.  Dross.

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