What is your opinion on the culture of celebrity worshipping?

[Nottoxic]

Do you worship a celeb?

[AmandaYVR]

It's really sad. It's always been a part of human's existence, to idolize others, but the celebrity worship has never reached such saturation as right now. It's not a good thing, in any way, that when young school children are asked what they want to be when they grow up, their answer is "Famous."

They're false idols. Yes, they are known. They are among the most beautiful. As characters, they embody often the best of what we wish we were. Their lives appear shiny. People see them as something to wish for. Sometimes they give us hope and are a symbol of what could be.

But they are mortal. They are flawed. They have pain and are often sad. They are human, and no human ever escapes the human experience.

[Nottoxic]

Perhaps it is part of human nature to idolise something or someone. In the past it was God's from many religions and now a shift is occurring from theism or atheism. This shift can perhaps explain why people idolise celebs the way they do.

I think one negative of Hollywood is the perception of perfect people with perfect lives. It makes regular people strive to be famous because it is frowned upon for celebrities to express that they do in fact, experience stress, depression, grief and pain like the rest of us.

[AmandaYVR]

Yes I've heard that perspective. And it might be correct.
I'm not a big believer in idolizing in general though. And I'm atheist and don't personally feel any need to think in that way.
If anything, I wish people would revere great minds more. Or even kindness, appreciating the small things people do, small triumphs.
But then there's the fact that often what appear to be the 'greatest minds' are not necessarily well-rounded people. They're often eccentric, to put it nicely, and have many other traits we shouldn't model after.
Anyway, back to your concept of celebrity - kids really need to be taught, or at least a heavy pushback against this kind of thinking. It's a road to nowhere. The most famous people don't even like their fame. They lose all sense of privacy, and the ability to enjoy simple pleasures that were once undervalued, but they now see them as special.

[Cmoreins]

I think many people today have become too obsessed and fascinated with celebrities. They put them on pedastools as if their opinions matters more than their (fan) own. Wanting to know the details of their lives when all of those minutes and hours used up for them could've been for something for their own life. I don't know. I used to have my own obsessions, but somewhere in my mid-late twenties I got out of it.

[Anonymous]

Same culture and mentality that has made Trump what he is.

[ItsTheNephilim]

Dumb.

[JaneDoe377]

It's sad.

[In_Trance]

its fkn dumb