Tuesday, January 27, 2009

On Celebrities

I was just reading an article on Yahoo! news about Jessica Alba and the apparently "neutral" country in WWII, the one where all the fleeing Europeans went to... Sweden.

I find it vaguely, if not completely and engrossingly entertaining to watch celebrities attempt to justify their importance with political statements, factual arguments with journalists, and activism. I think they realize that in truth, celebrities are unnecessary. Superfluous, if I may. They are a by-product of a luxury economy. We can't eat them, can't drink them, can't breathe them, they provide no real use to us except to occupy our minds while we waste time.

I think it very funny that they try to go toe-to-toe with experienced journalists; people who know what they're doing and bother to do the research; people who serve a purpose and have an oath to provide the People with accurate facts, if a little slanted in the process.

I am not a journalist, but from what I can tell, the bottom line is: don't mess with the pros.

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