Our failure to understand the link between fame and big business made the rise of Trump inevitable.
Celebrity culture is more than just harmless fun –it's an essential component of the systems that govern our lives.
Celebrity culture, long been cultivated by advertisers, marketers and the media, has a function. The more distant and impersonal corporations become, the more they rely on other people’s faces to connect them to their customers.
It's hard for people to attach themselves to a franchise owned by a hedge fund with its home in Panama City. So the machine needs a mask. It must wear the face of someone we see as often as we see our next-door neighbours.
An obsession with celebrity does not lie quietly beside the other things we value; it takes their place.
Read the rest of the story HERE:
At www.theguardian.com
Rob Kall is an award winning journalist, inventor, software architect, connector and visionary. His work and his writing have been featured in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, ABC, the HuffingtonPost, Success, Discover and other media.
He is the co-founder of the
Arc of Justice Alliance a platform designed to help organizations and individuals working for justice and a better world to discover each other and share resources and strategies, with the hopes that this will build their power.
Check out his platform at Bottom Up Radio Show, and founded and publishes one of the top Google- ranked progressive news and opinion sites, OpEdNews.com
more detailed bio:
Rob Kall has spent his adult life as an awakener and empowerer-- first in the field of biofeedback, inventing products, developing software and a music recording label, MuPsych, within the company he founded in 1978-- Futurehealth, and founding, organizing and running 3 conferences: Winter Brain, on Neurofeedback and consciousness, Optimal Functioning and Positive Psychology (a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, first presenting workshops on it in 1985) and Storycon Summit Meeting on the Art Science and Application of Story-- each the (more...)
1
1
