The fascination or obsession with the celebrity lifestyle.
I asked a few people for their thoughts on why they think celebrities are celebrated/worshiped more so than their own family or neighborhood community leaders. Here's what they had to say: Edgar: The problem is ultimately consumerism and the consumer mind set which is the root of this issue which the media played a big part in. To make this as short as possible propaganda was only used in war time to get the country behind them. They(corporations) figured out that you can do the same thing during peace time to get people to buy things around the World War 1 period. The word propaganda had a negative connotation so they called it public relations a term coined by Edward Bernays who was basically that dude when it came to that in that era. All of that led to psycho analysis(mainly Freud's theories about us being driven by subconscious desires and feelings) being used by corporations to switch the mind set of people from a needs to a want society. Using...