Choosing just one person that I am curious about is incredibly hard for me. I’m kind of generally curious about people how aren’t me, mostly because I think I am incredibly boring. This means that I spend a lot of time following the lives of famous people on-line, because that information is there. Lately though I’ve been logging on to one sleazy gossip website or another and seeing some picture of someone’s private moment with their girlfriend or daughter or whatever, and instead of feeling the thrill of getting a glimpse at someone else’s life, I’ve started wondering about the person that took that picture. Not just what their motivation is, because I understand the concept of money, but also where they set the boundary for themselves.
In that vein I’ve also been thinking about the bloggers themselves (or the tabloid editors or whatever). So often they’re posts are riddled with moral judgements about the choices of the celebrities. I can’t help but want to ask them, what they do with their lives that makes them the authority on how to live an acceptable life. I know this is unfair, because everyone that pays attention to celebrity culture, which I do, passes judegement even if they don’t want to, but I wonder what, other than money, motivates these people to share these judgements with the world.
I don’t think this is very feasible for my essay or anything, its just something I’ve been thinking a lot about lately.
