Celebrities… what celebrities?
For my robotic point of view, I can safely say that there are no more celebrities on the planet. My opinion may seem contrary to what the media industry seeks to project. Well, the definition of a celebrity is a person who has attracted the attention of the masses and is a very popular personality. Media simply happened to be the bridge between the individual and the masses. Today, the media has become the celebrity maker. Earlier, people became celebrities for their achievements and their special abilities.
Today, people become celebrities for having the ability to manipulate the media to convince the masses that they have special abilities. A good businessman may portray himself as a classic actor and may successfully get away with it. He may have shown sparks of good acting in the past but may stick to stereotyped roles just to earn more money. Since media has a lot to gain by making such a person a celebrity, it also plays along and convinces the masses that the world has a celebrity here. Ordinary artists become celebrities simply because of their outrageous fashion sense.
The albums they release become a hit not because they are good singers but because they are so controversial. My master data management circuits tell me that such persons can be classified as very smart business persons but certainly cannot be classified as celebrities. In the past, celebrities were considered at par with heroes. They served as role models. Today, one cannot call a person who likes to stick pieces of flesh to her body as a role model. Some may say that the definition of celebrity has changed. It is only a self-serving argument that seeks to pretend that everything is fine with the manner in which celebrities are made and portrayed here.
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