It’s unmistakable; we live in celebrity culture. It’s what’s talked about around the water cooler, it’s what intrigues people, and it’s what many of us spend countless hours following by watching TV shows and, yes, binge-watching programs on the internet. Following important issues of the day aren’t nearly as interesting as following what happens next on your favorite program. It’s all about the celebrities and, unfortunately, the gossip surrounding them.
I suppose, to some degree, it’s understandable to want to come home from a day of work and just ‘veg’ in front of the TV. We need an escape of some sort from reality. But it appears we often want to disappear completely from reality and just melt into a fantasy world. And a fantasy world it is. For the people that get elevated to the status of ‘celebrity’ are never as great as most people have projected them to be in their minds. It’s inevitable; we give a kind of no-fault status to people we don’t know if they’re a regular somewhere in the media. We create an image of who we want them to be, rather than the image of who these people really are. We place them on a pedestal—many of whom never asked to be placed there in the first place.
But it’s not just the elevation of celebrities anymore. We’ve moved into the next step of societal evolution: now we each want to be a celebrity, ourselves. Today it’s possible. With the advent of YouTube, and the fast growth of other internet media, stars are created sometimes overnight. No need for a publicist, or agent—just a computer and a webcam and you can gain an online following that previous generations never could have dreamed of. So, we’ve moved from the admiration of celebrity to seeking that celebrity status for ourselves.
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But what is a celebrity—and why do we want to be one? If you think about those who have achieved ‘star’ status, you’ll note that many of them haven’t achieved anything more meaningful than even the most average person. In most cases, a lot of them are just famous for being famous. They do a job, sure, but on a TV show as an actor, a host, or maybe even a TV news anchor (I suppose that would be the most seemingly legitimate of celebrities). All these people are doing something, mostly in the entertainment industry—generally not creating a cure for Ebola, or making a scientific discovery to feed the world population. Regardless, we somehow feel the need to elicit responses and opinions from these people, as though they had some higher knowledge than the general public. But in the end, ‘celebrity’ is just a status for people with admiration they don’t deserve.
I find it interesting that many of those with a purely naturalistic worldview, based on mere random chance, have such an aversion to the notion of God, while many of these same people seem to be so intent and skillful at creating gods of their own. They easily elevate a mere human to the status of a god, but God, Himself, is not in all their thoughts.
I think a clear indication of our mindset can be determined by what we admire. If we want to be grounded in reality, we have to have a firm understanding that people are still just people: they’re fallible, they’re imperfect, and they’re fallen. Maybe we should just let them remain ‘people’. Don’t guild them with a shiny coat that only rubs off anyway.