Fame

Dear Star-Struck Masses,

If there's one thing I don't understand about today's modern society, it's the rabid false idolatry worship taken mutant man-eating form across today's media frenzied culture. With humanity's increasing technology making it easier to communicate across continents, effortless to relay news in real-time, we've become a globalized community. But with it has arisen a means for media-approved stalking of big named stars. And, of course, those media-savvy agents have taken full advantage of this. Personal interviews, legalized stalking, rabid paparazzi and over the top personal grievances of the rich and famous gone public.

Frankly, this scares me.

For me, I fall in love with characters. The roles. Actors? Actresses? Musicians? I may admire them, but it's their work that truly grips me.

In all honesty, if I had a chance to meet face to face with such well known folk, I would duck, cower and run.

Meeting actors or musicians, and knowing their faults, making them human and mere individuals just spoils the whole "I'm in love with the bad-ass demon hunter" thing.

Yes. I'm weird. Yes. I'll never be a true fangirl.

But, in a way, I guess it's only polite.

And if anything, I'm polite. Even to the point of being impolite.

I mean these folk, these talented talented folk, I'm sure they need their privacy. Their own personal space.

And as much as they owe their careers to their fanbase, their fanbase owes their dreams, fantasies and enjoyment to these folk.

I guess, I just don't understand the sheer intrusiveness of fame. The sheer inanity of wanting to know every detail of your idol's life. As if knowing everything about them, makes you own them.

Makes you entitled to a piece of them.

Again. It's terrifying. And I really admire any who put up with it. But again, it takes guts and dedication to be that sort of fan, and you can't dismiss that either.

In a sense, I can understand it either way.

But did I really need to know about so-and-so's public mental breakdown?

I think that's just in bad taste.

After all, they're people too. And it ain't helping no one by publicizing that piece of news.

Well. At least not emotionally.

But at the end of the day, I guess the entertainment industry is just that; and industry. A business.

And it almost always boils down to the money. And people have to eat sometime. Even if not often to keep that oh so desirable hot summer bod.