…and it’s not like celebrities are unaware they’re entering into a kind of machine or industrial instrument when they start this process. I believe Chappell travelled to NYC to participate in a “musical showcase” basically an audition with a bunch of other artists some of whom will and won’t get signed. It’s an industry. Celebrities are produced in an industrial process, she’s been working on this since an early age.
Good for her and everything but you’d have to have blinders on or be on drugs to not consider there’s an obvious cost: the loss of normalcy, of an uninterrupted public life, of anonymity. Yes, celebrity is the opposite of anonymity and requires fanatics to produce.
I’m not unhinged for stating the obvious, even if you simply don’t like what I’m saying.
I’m just telling you how the sausage is made. You’re an idiot if you choose to dislike me for being the one who tells you the truth.
You don’t want fanatics, you’d have to stop selling celebrities as “Sensational” or “Special” or “Stars”…and that would drastically reduce profits and audience appeal. They’d cease to be celebration worthy. They’d just be like normal people again. They’d have to get other jobs.
But these are not sharks or black bears. These are humans who can change their behavior. The more people act like you and just accept it as normal, fine, business as usual, the more this becomes a problem.
It is not acceptable, never should be, and we should never consider it so.
Ahh, so humans aren’t animals because we think where as stupid animals don’t thinking? No animal has never solved a maze or cognitive puzzle eh? No, animals think too.
Oh but they’re more guided by instincts? Is that what you’re saying?
…well, I guess we’ll have to throw out every scientific paper on what humans do if there’s a fire, a crowd, or a stock market crash. What we do when hungry, or at war, or when we’re lost.
Nope we also have instincts.
We, the humans with the thinking “rational brains” are also just animals. We also have instincts and responses. Statistical range of them. Not all people panic in a fire, or when lost but ENOUGH do that it’s a known instinct we can write about as “human nature”.
… and we have social instincts too. A statistical range of them.
Like, say when we’re meeting a big chief, or tribe leader, a hero or someone important to the tribe… We have social instincts.
So the tribe is telling us Chappell Roan is one such important person. Some of us, perhaps those who are particularly vain, or insecure, have a stronger reaction.
It’s instincts. It’s produced by social knowledge of celebrities as socially important. As financial opportunities, as minor miracles - aka as “Sensational” - as “Special” - as “Stars”. Everything advertising tells us they are.
…oh look, it’s the same problem. The instincts are already being manipulated, in aa money making direction.
But you’re right - there is a solution - something we can do to mitigate the problem to reduce it. We can NOT promote certain people as celebrities. We can not have celebrities.
We could for instance just have bards who are well paid, but not promoted as products so much. We could limit broadcasts, and the more massive wages of entertainers, try to localized them to single cities or states.
Basically we could try to get rid of their celebrity, and the industry around it.
But we’d probably still have these problems. Because we’re dealing with human nature.
“Oh we’re not like bears and sharks”.
I really wish that was true. I wish we’d focus that understanding of ourselves in places like Palestine, South Sudan, or Ukraine.
…and it’s not like celebrities are unaware they’re entering into a kind of machine or industrial instrument when they start this process. I believe Chappell travelled to NYC to participate in a “musical showcase” basically an audition with a bunch of other artists some of whom will and won’t get signed. It’s an industry. Celebrities are produced in an industrial process, she’s been working on this since an early age.
Good for her and everything but you’d have to have blinders on or be on drugs to not consider there’s an obvious cost: the loss of normalcy, of an uninterrupted public life, of anonymity. Yes, celebrity is the opposite of anonymity and requires fanatics to produce.
I’m not unhinged for stating the obvious, even if you simply don’t like what I’m saying.
I’m just telling you how the sausage is made. You’re an idiot if you choose to dislike me for being the one who tells you the truth.
You don’t want fanatics, you’d have to stop selling celebrities as “Sensational” or “Special” or “Stars”…and that would drastically reduce profits and audience appeal. They’d cease to be celebration worthy. They’d just be like normal people again. They’d have to get other jobs.
But these are not sharks or black bears. These are humans who can change their behavior. The more people act like you and just accept it as normal, fine, business as usual, the more this becomes a problem.
It is not acceptable, never should be, and we should never consider it so.
Ahh, so humans aren’t animals because we think where as stupid animals don’t thinking? No animal has never solved a maze or cognitive puzzle eh? No, animals think too.
Oh but they’re more guided by instincts? Is that what you’re saying?
…well, I guess we’ll have to throw out every scientific paper on what humans do if there’s a fire, a crowd, or a stock market crash. What we do when hungry, or at war, or when we’re lost.
Nope we also have instincts.
We, the humans with the thinking “rational brains” are also just animals. We also have instincts and responses. Statistical range of them. Not all people panic in a fire, or when lost but ENOUGH do that it’s a known instinct we can write about as “human nature”.
… and we have social instincts too. A statistical range of them.
Like, say when we’re meeting a big chief, or tribe leader, a hero or someone important to the tribe… We have social instincts.
So the tribe is telling us Chappell Roan is one such important person. Some of us, perhaps those who are particularly vain, or insecure, have a stronger reaction.
It’s instincts. It’s produced by social knowledge of celebrities as socially important. As financial opportunities, as minor miracles - aka as “Sensational” - as “Special” - as “Stars”. Everything advertising tells us they are.
…oh look, it’s the same problem. The instincts are already being manipulated, in aa money making direction.
But you’re right - there is a solution - something we can do to mitigate the problem to reduce it. We can NOT promote certain people as celebrities. We can not have celebrities.
We could for instance just have bards who are well paid, but not promoted as products so much. We could limit broadcasts, and the more massive wages of entertainers, try to localized them to single cities or states.
Basically we could try to get rid of their celebrity, and the industry around it.
But we’d probably still have these problems. Because we’re dealing with human nature.
“Oh we’re not like bears and sharks”.
I really wish that was true. I wish we’d focus that understanding of ourselves in places like Palestine, South Sudan, or Ukraine.
We’re not bears or sharks… Except when we are!