Fame is Dead
I was just sitting here watching Inside Edition, story after story featured people that have no legitimate talent. From Octo-Mom, to Jon and Kate, Spencer and Heidi, Balloon Dad, the White House Party Crashers… These people have devalued fame to the point that is worthless. It has always been cool to be uncool, but I now think we have entered a world of anti-fame.
Those who truly have some talent, Tiger Woods, David Letterman, Mel Gibson, John Edwards and many others, have done their part to destroy fame as well. Using their influence and power… Fame, to showcase substandard morals and urinate on the sanctity of marriage. Many make the argument that they shouldn’t be held to a higher standard (First of all, I am not holding them to a standard I wouldn’t hold anyone else to, cheating is cheating, rich or poor), but they have put themselves out there as a commodity, they want us to watch their shows, buy the products they endorse, elect them, so you have effectively made yourself a product, and products are up for review. I don’t buy products that are bad for my family or myself… Nike, Gatorade, General Motors, American Express, you are now aligned with a product that is bad for families and children.
So, as far as I can tell, modern fame is either reserved for talentless people who can cause a big enough spectacle to gain national attention or those who use there talents to gain wealth and notoriety to mock the institution of marriage, and devalue the importance of women and wives (Showing by example that wives are just figure heads to have just to gain the appearance of being an upstanding family man and that women in general are only good for having affairs with, thus beings to use for your pleasure without true regard for their well-being. )
I guess what I am really saying is that I have never been more proud to lack fame, viva the average person!
Rock On, Jack
Tags: Fame, Mel Gibson, Party Crashers, Tiger Woods
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:02 pm
Amen.
Pseudo celebrity or not…they’re all a bunch of trash peddlers. Unfortunately, they are just another product of the deteriorated state of our society…of our core values. It’s up to us to exert our consumer power. It’s up to us to turn them off, tune them out. The inundation of reality television killed my desire to watch television. I rarely purposefully watch television. Most of the time, I do so in passing because my husband has it on. Needless to say, my decision not to watch television is always reinforced when I catch glimpse of the garbage on television. It’s truly unfortunate. I, like you Jack, have fond memories of favorite shows like CHiPs, Emergency, The Brady Bunch, Mr. Belvedere, Growing Pains, Facts of Life, I Love Lucy, etc. Oh well…these days I’m selective of what I watch. I even pick and choose news stories from the various news resources online. Any oodle…that’s a lot of opinion for this time of day. I’m going to go raid the vending machine at work. Toodles!
December 2nd, 2009 at 6:05 pm
BTW…how can we add pics to our entries?
December 3rd, 2009 at 7:24 pm
Thanks Jack…If only more people thought like you the world would be a better place.
December 16th, 2009 at 12:14 am
Hi Jack…
Haven’t read your blog in a while, but have followed you since the JJ and S days…. OMG! What a great blog! You were spot on! Everything you said… perfection. I’m with Rachel–truly, the world would be a better place if people respected marriage and families (and not in the yes on 8 way). Thank you!
December 23rd, 2009 at 6:14 pm
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