In the Hitchens polemic, take especial notice of this:
The supposedly "broad-minded" culture turns out to be as prurient and salacious as the elders in The Scarlet Letter. Hilton is legally an adult but the treatment she is receiving stinks—indeed it reeks—of whatever horrible, buried, vicarious impulse underlies kiddie porn and child abuse.
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this is really interesting because i'd never thought to feel sorry for her before. i don't care much for celebrity antics, though, and feel that if you scream for attention long enough, you can't very well just decide you don't want it anymore when things go pearshaped. I have no idea why anybody is interested in celebrity, let alone pure celebrity. there must be something else more worthy of the attention
I have a very similar p.o.v. -- and yet, like you, I find myself feeling that there is a human being there in these recent events. Her circumstance & status force themselves into my mind when reflecting on Coupland ....
you're true. she is very much a product of the age that we live in...she wouldn't be the way she is without a rabid market for it. i guess glorifying celebrities is just another way to think of ourselves in the context of an overarching narrative rather than as "fetuses" floating in the swimming pool of life. everyone glorifies someone i guess, just seems misguided. and who does paris glorify?
Paris.
or at least that's what we need to think in order to glorify pure celebrity...
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