By :
Mark Etinger
Can we ever really have enough scandal? It seems like our culture has accelerated in a strange fashion and that the only way to feed it is for there to be a constant string of celebrities under severe conditions for our collective amusement. We build up these pop cultural icons, only to burn them at the stake of public opinion. Sure, there are exceptions. Some stars can handle themselves right and continue to thrive as popular cultural figures. George Clooney has become an expert at being a wildly famous person but avoiding public meltdowns and stories of misconduct. Our daily entertainment though, seems to rely on one or more celebrities getting into some sort of brouhaha or other.Thing is we have become an insanely self-reflexive culture, while public meltdowns and instant news flashes are practically the only things that can count as mass cultural events anymore. We have movies and television shows that are watched by a lot of people, but more and more they are niche in their direction. Prime examples would be a show like Glee and a show like Breaking Bad. Each are popular in their own way but neither has even a drop of the cultural cachet once held by, say, The Cosby Show or Dallas. These days the things we experience together are more in line with Charlie Sheen meltdowns and Lindsey Lohan arrests.Star news, of course, has been a prominent part of our discourse for a long time. The difference now seems to be that the stars themselves are more and more famous simply for being famous. Scandal is not just a byproduct of their success but instead has become the driving force behind it. The best examples of this, of course, is the Kardashians. Orchestrating "normal" people to be paraded around like public disasters really has the potential to derail the joy that we get from the genuine public flame-outs of actual talents. The differences are significant. Manufactured disasters will never have the impact of a Kurt Cobain suicide or Biggie/Tupac murder. Heck, it will not even have the emotional impact of a Fiona Apple award show acceptance speech. Those things were pieces of the artistic puzzle for people that spoke for a segment of the population in their work. At the end of the day what we want from our public celebs spectacles is to watch people better positioned than us writhe in pain. The less eventful and the less actual sacrifice we see in these things the easier it gets to enjoy these "news" items. The more we can enjoy them the more snarky we can get about things.
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