Non-stop celebritard misery, 24-7
Mar. 5th, 2011 01:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_archfiendThere will be no links to anything (except the appropriate music link below) in this post, and for obvious reasons:
If anybody wanted to be entertained by the spectacle of a public celebrity self-destructing in the most egocentric, bizarre fashion seen in a long time, witness the spectacle of Charlie Sheen. This is the only time I'm going to bother to post on this subject until what I consider his (probably) inevitable death; the coverage of his meltdown has reached such a saturation point in the media that it could probably produce steam if it were an actual physical object, and my guess is that we'll be hearing about his being found face down and lifeless in a pile of his own sick in 6 months to a year from now anyway. So why belabor the point?
The only remaining question is this: why are we seemingly transfixed by this shit?
Is it some inherent mix of sadism and vicarious pleasure that makes us watch this miserable bastard destroy himself and everyone around him? Are we so throughly brainwashed by the media cycle and the Infotainment industry that we have to watch this get played out? Sure, it's morbidly funny for a while - until you realize how utterly stupid all of it is.
Needless to say, my death pool prediction is yet another symptom of how omnipresent coverage of all of this is - sad to say, I don't think I'm being either inaccurate or hyperbolic in making the above prediction. Unfortunately, it's going to be his family and friends (if any of them can still put up with him) who'll have to pick up the pieces when all of this finally gets played out. Good luck on that. And enjoy the all-too appropriate theme music.
If anybody wanted to be entertained by the spectacle of a public celebrity self-destructing in the most egocentric, bizarre fashion seen in a long time, witness the spectacle of Charlie Sheen. This is the only time I'm going to bother to post on this subject until what I consider his (probably) inevitable death; the coverage of his meltdown has reached such a saturation point in the media that it could probably produce steam if it were an actual physical object, and my guess is that we'll be hearing about his being found face down and lifeless in a pile of his own sick in 6 months to a year from now anyway. So why belabor the point?
The only remaining question is this: why are we seemingly transfixed by this shit?
Is it some inherent mix of sadism and vicarious pleasure that makes us watch this miserable bastard destroy himself and everyone around him? Are we so throughly brainwashed by the media cycle and the Infotainment industry that we have to watch this get played out? Sure, it's morbidly funny for a while - until you realize how utterly stupid all of it is.
Needless to say, my death pool prediction is yet another symptom of how omnipresent coverage of all of this is - sad to say, I don't think I'm being either inaccurate or hyperbolic in making the above prediction. Unfortunately, it's going to be his family and friends (if any of them can still put up with him) who'll have to pick up the pieces when all of this finally gets played out. Good luck on that. And enjoy the all-too appropriate theme music.
