Celebrity Influence
Idol worship is alive and well.
The passage from adolescence to adulthood should result in a wiser human being, one who can look at things and understand intuitively that something does or doesn’t make sense.
Childhood is fantasyland, and it usually worsens with puberty. The counter for this are age-sensitive rules and guardrails established by wise parents. The structure and discipline imposed by loving adults help guide the ship of growth through the raging hormone storms.
If you ever want to destroy a society, then mess with this process. Disrupt the bond between families and generations. And who better to do this than celebrities — people who play-act their whole lives memorizing dialogue not their own?
Are celebrities bad people?
No, but neither are they demigods.
They are the idols that childish minds, no matter the one’s age, crave and promoters market for money. Their overblown importance to our lives reveals a disconnect between the world and God.
The small-g-gods children want are powerful stimulants for their imaginations. After all, these celebri-deities are those who defy gravity getting whatever they want without doing chores. Because they don’t live as mere mortals they seem to be able to reach through the Jumbotron or silver screen to give their child-worshipers the intimate affirmation they crave. With the aid of great sound, scripts, music, and camera closeups, audience-bonds are formed capable of convincing children that if they knew the celebrity personally they would certainly be best buds.
It’s a nice dream.
Where it falls apart is when celebrities step out of their roles and speak what is on their own minds, which usually reveals two things — they believe their own press clippings, and they aren’t very bright outside their field of performance art.
Adults pick up on this. Reducing entertainment consumption is a healthy life choice and can dramatically improve all moods of discontent.
