Comments on: Celebrity Worship

By: Jenny

Jenny — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 23:40:58 +0000

Hey Armand,
I agree that the best path in life is to just be yourself, as hard and uncomfortable as that can be.

Thanks for commenting!

By: Armand

Armand — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:27:06 +0000

“Worshipping” any human creature is wrong from the beggining. Even if the stars would have been all that they seem to be, it still would have been wrong to “worship” them.

I’m not saying that it’s wrong to have role models, far from me, but the best solution in life is to just be yourself. It sounds easy but it’s very difficult to do so…

Today’s celebrities don’t have to really -be- all that they seem to be, they just have to fool as many people as they can into believing so. The ones that fall into that trap and place the celebrities on a pedestral up in the sky are weak.

I never “worshipped” a celebrity. I respect them all for what they are doing, and that’s about all I do in this direction.

Anyhow, I think that this celebrity worship thing is just a piece of a huge puzzle.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 01:47:48 +0000

Interesting, I’ve never thought of celebrity worship that way before. The first thing that popped to mind as I started reading was that journalists are also storytellers and they get no acclaim. And secondly, as you said, the writers and directors are the storytellers, not the actors (though some of them can make or break the story).

Maybe that’s why I like books so much. There’s no confusion as to who is telling the story, and a well told story always leads to appreciation of the storyteller. Unfortunately a well told story, even if the story has little substance and less wisdom, can also lead to appreciation of the storyteller.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:37:08 +0000

I really like that celebrities are the characters analogy… it rings true.

But the characters of stories have always been at least as well known as the teller. I’d be willing to bet more people can tell you something about Romeo and Juliet, the characters, than Shakespeare. King Arthur, Merlin, Dracula, Winnie the Pooh… you know the characters, but do you know the story teller?

The real difference is that these days, some of the characters are real and living. King Arthur would have gotten similar attention centuries ago, had the communication facilities been around to allow it, and had he been the character from the stories, alive and real.

By: Liara Covert

Liara Covert — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:38:14 +0000

When an individual spends more time idolizing other people and what that individual doesn’t have, than that individual spends on loving and accepting the self, then celebrity worship may be destructive. What if the tables were turned? What if celebrity worship you perceive aaround you could trigger a deeper, self-appreciation than ever before? That would be desirable.