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Celebrity Myth #3: 

Celebrities make life more meaningful and interesting for everyone.

 

Celebrities, particularly actors, use their talents to create a make-believe world of meaning, value and importance for hundreds of millions of hungry consumers of movies and television programs around the world.  They become rich and famous in the process of making billions of dollars for the film and television industries.  People have become resigned that even though their lives will most probably never resemble life in the movies, at least we can accept that almost everyone is in the same boat.  It can be said that there is a shared conspiracy of rock-bottom low expectations of the standards which govern the quality of our lives and of those of most everyone around us.  After all, everyone knows that no matter how hard we try, life is always better and more exciting in the movies. 

Sure their are many exceptions.  Their are many accomplished people who stand out as extraordinary examples of civic leadership and family role-models.  There are the successful entrepreneurs and the exemplary religious leaders.  Truth be told, they are the exceptions.  Most people at some point in their life settle for the fact that their life is not and will never be a reflection of everything they imagined and dreamed possible for themselves when the idealism of youth provided endless hope for a brighter future.

What would truly make everyone's lives more meaningful and interesting is if every celebrity and billionaire donated their entire fortune to charity on the same day and found themselves in a situation of having to earn an income based on the real contribution that they actually make to their communities, to society and to the world.  Since this will never happen, the best we can hope for is that those of us who contribute to puffing up celebrities will wake up and realize that putting them on a pedestal creates an escape from reality and an opiate of the masses relieving countless people from ever having to make anything extraordinary of their own lives.

Does this mean we should stop watching television and movies all together?  Perhaps, but not necessarily.  Hollywood is subject to the market forces of supply and demand.  It wouldn't be a bad idea to start being very selective about what kinds of stories we reward at the box office and what kinds of television programs we allow to come into our homes influencing the hearts and minds of our children.  At least this way, celebrities would have a harder time making themselves rich while poisoning our minds with content that only makes our society and world culturally sicker and poorer.

 

 

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