After watching some American chat show on my break at work and reading Clive Barker's novel about Hollywood -
We all crave recognition in one way or the other but up till recently people were working hard to get it, developing their natural talents, learning new skills, trying to achieve something that would impress other people in a positive way. Today all you need is enough cheek to make a mobile phone clip of yourself beating up a defenceless drunk on a bus stop and putting it on youtube, being insensitive enough to destroy your relationship in front of laughing crowds by claiming you don't know how to use condoms, manipulative enough to use people who wish you well as ladder steps to being someone everyone made you believe you want to be. Not only people performing these acts get what they want, however fleeting such fame is, but also there are hundreds of people whose acceptance of such performances encourages other to try the same way. Is this the sign of the world going wrongly mad or just cruel human nature surfacing in the times when many people have too much time on their hands and so they become attention seekers/passive admirers of the dark side of the soul?
Celebrities and talk shows make me laugh a twisted little laughter of superiority. Then I go back to my blathering blog. No escape from human nature after all...
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