Celebrity Insanity

Recent posts on this blog have dealt with our celebrity culture, and its origins. The point is, celebrity culture is not only an amusing diversion for we the consumers of it; it is a deliberatly encouraged and nurtured corporate gimmick to distract us from our corporate enslavement, and to make more money for the already wealthy.We Americans create celebrities, partly because we want to, and partly because we are told to so so by our corporate masters.

A case in point is Michael Jackson, whose life, death, and doctor's murder trial were/are all exploited to the fullest by the corporate media which spoon feeds us the garbage we lap up like the lapdogs we are.

Jackson was deprived of his childhood by a father who worshipped at the alter of the almighty dollar. To compensate for this, he lived his adult life childishly, seeking to capture what he never had; a childhood. When he should have been going to grade school and playing after school with other kids, he was rehearsing and performing, endlessly.

Jackson was surrounded by vultures who encouraged him to feel that no matter what he did, he must do more. Evidenly he despised himself, instead of despising the despicable world that drove him to change his face into that of a white man, to work himself to death, and to escape his trap through excessive drug use.

American culture created Michael Jackson, and American corporate manufactured consumer celebrity culture destroyed him, with him as a willing accomplice. Now we sit in rapt attention to the murder trial of his doctor, as we are spoon fed its lurid details. We should have ingored Michael, just as we should ignore all the people we instead turn into bizarre godlike celebrities.

If American culture were a racehorse, it would be shot. We should put ourselves on trial for cultural insanity, and sit beside Jackson's doctor in the courtroom. But instead, we crave ever more, and are fed ever more, banality. Like Davy Crockett said: "that don't make good sense. Hell, that don't even make good nonsense".