All too often I find myself encountering the most ridiculously cliché articles on how “people feel celebrities are worth more than normal people.” I mean, it got me so tired that in response to one of these articles after a while I didn’t even constructively criticize; I resorted to commenting with a “cliché checklist.”
There’s a fundamental disconnect between the attention the media gives celebrities, and the attention most people give them. To say that “…if Kim Kardashian and a normal girl were both kidnapped on the same day, only Kim would get attention for it” is wholly inaccurate and distrusting of people. Most normal people would equally recognize anyone over a popular celebrity, realizing simply that they could be in their place too, and that their life is equally valuable to theirs. Sure, the fans of the celebrity may support them more, and the media’s out to make a profit so following the more profitable (celebrity) story is a given, but this doesn’t mean we place different value on them as people. It doesn’t reflect how people actually feel.
Furthermore, they are worth more than you. What have you done with your life? What are you going to be doing? Have celebrities not contributed immensely to society by generally entertaining and increasing societal happiness in a definite, measurable way?
They’ve earned their worth just as much as you’ve assumed it; don’t give them so much credit, but remember, they still get more credit than you.
No comments:
Post a Comment