Imagine for a moment Western civilization decided to stop vicariously living their lives through vain, insipid celebrities with no sense of shame and whose views on major issues are as informed and well thought out as a lemming that thinks it will land on its feet once it jumps off of a cliff. Imagine popular magazines interviewed people who really matter. Are there gaming magazines monitoring the level a leukemia-stricken child has attained in a video game? Do fashion magazines note how a cancer researcher accessorizes for work in a lab? Are there entertainment magazines approaching an American historian for insight into making an historically accurate film on early American history?
There should be.
4 comments:
It's like I once asked, If we are goign to start deciding who needs to be euthanised, why aren't we picking off the massively drug addicted movie stars with nothing to look forward to but decades of painful recovery until they die? Because they are the ones that pay the bills and that is all that really matters in our screwed up society.
~Your Brother~
One would think "Dancing with the Stars" would be a form of euthanasia.
SCORCH!
"All is vanity." That's Ecclesiastes! Even I recognize that. Do you mean that "Everything is in vain," (as the Book of Ecclesiastes meant) or that "People are vain," and stardom-obsessed?
I wish, as you do, that things ran deeper in people. Unfortunately, entertainment, gaming and fashion magazines go with what SELLS, so it is the public rather than the publications that are at fault. If one publication of the type we "wish" for were started and met with great success, then the others might modify their approach and become "deeper". We can only wish that we could make a difference by BEEFING about it.
HAROLD HECUBA
People are vain. And obsessed with vanity.
And beef we will about it.
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