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01-03-2013, 11:17 PM   #16
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Celebrity is a status, an honor, bestowed upon you by others. You can't just take a class, or purchase a license for fame. It isn't "earned" and it certainly isn't measurable through empirical evidence.

But for artists and performers, celebrity status is currency; it gets them more work. To some it is just as intoxicating as greed of money, for sure. Some will even kill for it.

That doesn't in any way imply that anyone should assume anyone that has been given celebrity status to be "available" 24/7/365, but that is how we, collectively, treat them. That is a failing of our character, not theirs. We build them up to unrealistic stature, pay them ridiculously high 'salaries', give them demigod status, and then a blink of an eye later we deride them for enjoying those same rewards. That's the hypocrisy you're searching for.

I'm no fan of Bieber at all (can't stand the vacuous little twerp, to be honest). But taking a dim view of his choice of a vocation that pays very well up front if you're lucky, and provides him with a respectable amount of residual income is small minded thinking, if you ask me. Financial freedom from earning a good living in your working years, and having residual income to live out your retirement is the very embodiment of the American dream. They're poster fodder for capitalism!

"They want to be left alone when it suits them but want an audience when it suits them as well..." That pretty much sums up the human condition, Mike. Performers just do their thing on a larger scale than most people are capable; that's why they're performers.

The bottom line really is that even if Bieber had been in the Ferrari, there was no show happening that day except the idiotic antics of a fame crazed wannabe paparazzi. The "show" is up on the stage, not on the 405.

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