Watched about 15 minutes so far... keep falling asleep in the middle of the day, it's kind of boring. But maybe I haven't reached anything interesting yet.
My first reactions aren't that charitable, I guess, and I am open to having them change, but I'll just be honest at the moment:
Maybe I am having a sharp reaction because despite being white collar and college-educated, I grew up in a very rural county surrounded by corn fields, my graduating class had 200 people in it at best, and most of them stayed local and never attended college and still live there. The Farm Show was the biggest event around. Even though I do decently well occupationally and income-wise, I own no stock and have no inheritance and have no family name. I just look at someone like this and it's like no matter how much they might want to be viewed as an average person, their lives are so far divorced from normal that they don't know what average is, really -- is anyone worth $300 million ever going to have an average person experience?
Most people want to be left alone and not have people speculate about them don't make videos and aren't nearly in the limelight as much as she has been. And why make this video now? If you want to fade away, get your life back, become normal... why make a documentary about yourself? People make documentaries to either get attention, maintain attention, or modify how people think about them because they believe they will continue to be paid attention to.
The stuff mentioned about her DJ'ing so far in the thread sounds interesting and in general I'm all for that kind of thing in terms of perfecting one's abilities like the average person is expected to do... except it dropped early on that she commands $1 million dollars per DJ event. Seriously? TYPICAL DJs make $75-100 an hour depending on venue. Is her work really worth $1 million dollars a night, especially if she's learning? Maybe she's getting good now, but... $1 million? Does she grasp what it's like being an average person, or is she even being an average person by pursuing something she enjoys, if she is leveraging her name to get $1 million an event? No, she's still in the game of leveraging her name and self-marketing for profit. And moving in rich circles she has established for herself because of her name and past self-promotion... even while she is claiming to be unhappy and traumatized.
I think money can get in the way of self-actualization because it just makes too many things easy. You are walled off from the daily grind and daily problems that normal people experience, you can always find a way around them. You typically don't have to make hard sacrifices because money prevents you from needing to sacrifice. Maybe you have different problems (who to trust? what to invest in? making sure your money is not stolen?) but this is far different from people who live more in a day-to-day way. When you have no money or at least have to consider the financial implications of any decision you make on your happiness, well-being, health, and so on, it makes you face problems head on, know better what you want and need, etc. You're constantly needing to balance one thing against another, rather than carrying a tiny lapdog around with you and just floating from one thing to the next without having to really work out who you are and what you need.
I'm kind of interested to see what the point of the documentary is, but I'm also wondering if I will see anything that is any different from what happens with most people. Her sister Nicky came on, posed for the cameras in a manufactured position in a room larger than my downstairs, and used words in a way that made me laugh -- people just don't talk that way unless they are trying to sound smart or create a particular image.
I've got 90 more minutes to go, maybe something more will come to light.