October 17, 2007
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Why do people tend to care so much about celebrities?
I don’t think people really do care much about celebrities. Like any kind of empty casual activity, people follow celebrities because it is ‘fun’. It gives them something to talk about and dream about to pass the time. Most often people enjoy finding ways to feel superior to the celebrities despite their own lack of fame.
But in the end, we don’t *really* care. Whenever anything important comes up in any particular person’s lives, it will tend to take precedent over something like celebrity following which is just a minor amusement that doesn’t really mean anything to them.
The economics of modern society is built upon fostering interest in such irrelevant areas.
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