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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri
What's ironic, is that we hold movie stars up as role model and idols. Movie stars. People who are paid to pretend to be other people. People who are paid to not be who they are. I find that odd.

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

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ORIGINAL: blacksword404
It pays to do dumb shit. It also pays to do other people wrong. A guy is banging his neighbors wife as well as his daughter, and he'll get lots of attention. Used to be he would shamed and ridiculed.
You do something dumb and hurt yourself , as dumb fuck are drawn to do. And they'll give you lots of money for your dumb acts.
Doing the right thing and being smart doesn't pay. People these days want attention. They think they are somebody important.

I think you have something there, but your analysis may be off. We pay attention to the celeb's because we fantasize about living that lifestyle (or being their mate), and revel in their falls because it shows they are not perfect. We revel in the baser parts of society in a perversely glorifying way, not explicitly to glorify the behavior, but because it placates us since "at least we're not like them."

What's ironic, is that we hold movie stars up as role model and idols. Movie stars. People who are paid to pretend to be other people. People who are paid to not be who they are. I find that odd.

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ORIGINAL: Mupainurpleasure
sex symbols yes role models hell no. ,That life style of being under a maginfying glass 24/7 and the poparazzi harrassment results in some of the most dysfunctionasl disturbed human beings on the palnet. Now in cases where they arent nuts they do sometimes make a difference and sometimes even the nutters do. Angelina Jole for instance but I doubt anyone considers here a role model

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ORIGINAL: hlen5

Is this just the circus portion of "Bread and Circuses"?

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ORIGINAL: DesideriScuri

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ORIGINAL: blacksword404
It pays to do dumb shit. It also pays to do other people wrong. A guy is banging his neighbors wife as well as his daughter, and he'll get lots of attention. Used to be he would shamed and ridiculed.
You do something dumb and hurt yourself , as dumb fuck are drawn to do. And they'll give you lots of money for your dumb acts.
Doing the right thing and being smart doesn't pay. People these days want attention. They think they are somebody important.

I think you have something there, but your analysis may be off. We pay attention to the celeb's because we fantasize about living that lifestyle (or being their mate), and revel in their falls because it shows they are not perfect. We revel in the baser parts of society in a perversely glorifying way, not explicitly to glorify the behavior, but because it placates us since "at least we're not like them."

What's ironic, is that we hold movie stars up as role model and idols. Movie stars. People who are paid to pretend to be other people. People who are paid to not be who they are. I find that odd.