When we feel we aren’t, we cling to those that are listened to. In our new world order, since everyone is demanding to be heard no one is doing any serious listening.Īll any of us wants is to be heard by someone. While I enjoy knowing the latest gossip if for no other reason than to be provided a hardy chuckle every now and again, the cult of fame and fortune provides several interesting and insightful views.Īs a nation, our collective self esteem is in the toilet.Īs a nation, we require so little and demand even less of ourselves and others. Ninety million people vote for American Idol contestants while high school seniors in Texas can’t locate Mexico on an Atlas or know it is a country that borders ours and lays immediately South of their state. With a shift in values and a sense of entitlement, everybody could become famous. Suddenly, what mattered was being hot ie., famous no matter how you achieved it. ![]() When the eighties appeared along came an obsession with celebrities and the worship of fame. There were definite reasons we all knew certain individuals and what they did. In the same manner, they loved watching Columbo and a host of shows that dealt with adults having adult issues and solving them or not. When I was a young boy in the seventies, I fondly remember the adults around me going to the movies to watch Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Martin Scorsese, Cicely Tyson and others work their cinematic and theatrical magic. Many years ago, celebrity and those that had acquired it, had to be earned and there was a definite reason that we paid attention to certain individuals. The reason we love our celebrities (Oprah, Salma Hayek, Tina Turner, Chris Rock, Margaret Cho, Susan Sarandon) is because when they speak, people listen.
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