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Originally Posted by jayswin
Celebrity worship is a weird thing. I used to despise it, but after learning so much about it I realized that the problem isn't celebrities, it's how our brains are wired and we'll likely always be this way.
So the choices are to bitch and complain that some have elevated status in the hearts and minds of the global community or just accept that we're wired to look to others to worship and escape the struggle and mundane nature of our regular day to day lives.
We are weird animals. We have huge brains but are just in the infancy of discovering them. We're hypocrites in every sense of the word and it shines through every single day in every human being. If Jarome Iginla died tomorrow then everything changes.
Celebrities and celebrity worship culture is a symptom of our minds, not something forced upon us.
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What makes you say it's "how our brains are wired"?
Call me selfish but when a famous musician recently died I thought, "damn, now I don't get more of their good music" and really thought nothing else of it.
I think a large part of it is that people want to be part of something. Like the Humboldt tragedy. Or the ALS bucket challenge. An unreasonable amount of money was donated to those because of the 'popular' nature of them when there are millions of equally deserving recipients of those funds that don't get a cent. While there are obviously benefits I think it's a really stupid part of culture these days.