Why Should I Be Caring Right Now?

Someone explain the world's fascination with celebrities to me.

Seriously, I don't get it, they're famous so suddenly we need to know that they stole a cigarette lighter from a gas station? If a normal person did that we'd wonder what the big fucking deal is, but if Britney Spears does it we get interviews with the gas station owner, Britney Spears and her agent.

Fuck that.

How about instead of making a big deal about people who are complete trash like Britney, Lindsay and Paris, because they didn't wear panties and a hoard of cameramen that follow them to make big money selling the pictures to shitty magazines that feed on the hysteria of fame, how about we try doing that to normal people and seeing how the world takes it.

Logically there's no real reason to care more about someone who's father owns a multibillion dollar hotel empire than someone who's father mooched off of the government his whole life? If the resulting child is as much a complete waste of oxygen, why should there be any difference between the entertainment provided by the publication of the two people's lives?

I actually don't have anything against celebrities, there are some out there that I think genuinely aren't douchebags. Mainly the ones that don't feed into this gossipy world and try to hide from it, who are then in turn ridiculed by the gossipers for wanting some fucking privacy. What gives these whoremongery parasites the right to assume they can invade a person's privacy and publicise it to the world? And furthermore by what logical reason do they assume that people should care other than the reason that they tell people they should care (and thus they do for some stupid reason).

It just baffles the mind.

There was an article in the free newspaper/rag that gets handed out around Brisbane (it's called mX and I think most Aussie cities are infected with it's worthlessness) which actually listed the "celebrities of the year"

The winner was Britney, runner up was Anna Nicole Smith, Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan were on the list somewhere as well. Having seen all the useless bullshit printed about these people, the only thing I can see that they used to determine "best" celebrity was the one they were able to make the most money out of publishing their faults, because they definitely haven't done anything worthwhile in recent memory. . . actually I can't think of anything they've done ever that's worth making note about and I'm really struggling. Being a failure as a mother, committing suicide, being in a craptcular porno and turning from a "wholesome" girl to a coke addicted whore. . . that's what I seem to associate with these people. Nothing out there about them makes me think of them as anything worthwhile or anywhere near classifying as "best" at being anything.

Oh, and before anyone feels to point out the hypocrisy of me knowing anything about these celebrities, I know because this shit is force-fed into the media and mainstream culture, resulting in it being unavoidable to know something about these people. I'm sure you're all aware of it too, I probably wouldn't need to list names and you'd still be able to know who I'm talking about.

In conclusion, I too want people to just leave Britney alone.