Did we create this monster

To start let me say the is a big difference between celebrity and say star or artist. Keep this in mind when you read as a star or artist is someone who has studied and refined a talent or skill over many years of hard work and often blood sweat and tears. A celebrity is some one who seeks attention for attentions sake and to make an easy dollar or pound.

With that in mind I have been thinking. Is a lot of the social mess we are all in based purely from our almost social addiction of celebrity. Somewhere in the last twenty years we have moved our appetite from star gossip to celebrity overload. Gone is our desire to aspire to the lofty airs of a Hollywood star, and replaced with the instant gratification of the reality. I personally hate reality TV.  I find it demeaning and often too graphically explicit to be called entertainment.  I have no desire to watch some ones sex tape or want to torture my body into a caricature of ridiculous proportions. Give me old school glamour and the air of mystery any day.

But how much of this demand of instant wanton greed is what has fuelled our social decisions. Sure artists and politics have over lapped over the last decade, both successfully and sometimes less so. In many cases it's because a person has studied society and how to manipulate speech to varying levels of service to the public. But also they also know how to inspire and lift spirits and that's why they are not so much a danger as a logical progression.

However a celebrity who is more famed for getting caught in sexuality explicit antics, or drunken brawls is nothing to aspire to. Instead it should in common decency be condoned and shunned. However it has become the stable filler of tabloids and glossy magazines alike. What's worse is it has become a job many desire as it is shown as an easy way to accumulate wealth and cultural status. Life has become more instagram and less intelligence.

Sure if it's your desire to pickle your liver and let people see enough of your anatomy that they could become your gynaecologist, so be it, but don't consider it to be a talent worthy of mass wealthy and status. Yet that is how our youth and not so young are viewing it.

Now if that is how you set your moral compass by what  standards are you judging others. More importantly how are you choosing who has the conscious to represent yourself in major decisions. Or are you even bothering. The media itself is as much to blame by guiding us down a false path, by putting high ranking officials in the same glossy magazine as some one whose main claim to fame is whose is her babies daddy. It's crazy, it's like the who moral guidelines got shredded and replaced by whose who of fashion and social notoriety.

So I am left asking the question, if will fill our minds with utter rubbish on a daily basis do we leave ourselves enough intelligence to question things that really matter before its too late?