The Great One
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Well, you could always marry a Kardasian! haha.
lol, I'm not a black guy with a huge penis, so I don't think that will work.
Well, you could always marry a Kardasian! haha.
lol, I'm not a black guy with a huge penis, so I don't think that will work.
...or lots of money...haha...you've got a point.
Fact is we live in the Attention Economy. And who garners the most attention wins. And it is celebrities who are the winners.
And although we daydream about being celebrities ourselves, we whinge and complain that they are famous for just being famous, they have done nothing to earn fame.
So we pay our celebrities in attention, we pay attention.
And we would love to be paid that much attention ourselves.
No idea of what my titype is or how to find that out, but becoming famous for what I do is my biggest ambition, after being happy of course.
BRAVO.
I think being a celebrity would be pretty exciting, and I've noticed most of what people refer to as a downside wouldn't bother me at all.
In our Attention Economy celebrities are like the robber barons of the 19th century, but instead of stealing our money, the celebrities are stealing our attention.
We can reverse this by paying attention to one another rather than paying attention to celebrities.
Most celebrities have hardly any real power and are just cogs in a big machine, mindless and sterile. I'd hardly compare them to barons.
The media is indeed dedicated since its conception to have our full atention, since attention is energy. The media mogs are best compared to scientist running lab tests. And we are the rats.
A system is best understood from the inside, hence my interest in joining it.
I just want to hang out with famous people.
We used to say, I just want to hang out with rich people, but now we say, we just want to hang out with famous people.
yeah so? I just know they'd think I was awesome.
Rich people hang out with rich people; and famous people hang out with famous people.
We have moved from the money economy of the 19th century to the attention economy of the 21st century.
And the money economy, at least in civilized countries like Oz, is regulated and competitive, but the attention economy is yet to be regulated and is ruled by monopoly.
We are dazzled by the attention economy and dream of making it big like a celebrity, forgetting that the attention we pay a celebrity is stolen form those around us.
Ultimately it is a moral issue.
And how pathetic are the immoral dreamers, dreaming of celebrity.
It's funny to see someone so far up in their high horse being active in a forum like this. A lot of what happens here is narcissism masked as self searching.