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Celebrity dreams are the easy way out for politicians, voters, and young people alike.
Celebrities are the meeting point between rich individuals (whether valuable otherwise or not) with an air of experience and trust. There comes a point where the two merge and catapult each other into "hypercelebrity", where an individual is trusted because they are rich, and rich because they are trusted.
"Normal" people love citizens because they're rich. "Politicians" love citizens because they can fake authenticity, and because "normal" people love them. TV execs love a celebrity culture because it gets people to buy shit up.
Practicality or reality have nothing to do with it.
Commented Mar 18, 2011 on On Jamie's Dream School at Stumbling and Mumbling
On Jamie's Dream School
Watching Jamie’s Dream School last night prompted a thought: does any TV programme better embody so much of what I dislike about Britain today? (Don't get me started on Lily Allen: From Rags to Riches.) First, there’s the rampant egocentricity; as Alvin Hall noted, a lot of the kids have massive...
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Thanks for another post, Vi. Hoping we find out more one day too.
Commented Dec 25, 2010 on They say you can't go home again but I say: 'what do they know?' at leaving the house
They say you can't go home again but I say: 'what do they know?'
A few weeks ago, the other Perplex City writers and I got to talking about how much we'd enjoyed working together, and started wondering about what our characters might be up to now. So, this is very unofficial, but we put together some fan fiction for a Restitution of the Cube Day treat. And we...
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