Obsessed With The Unnecessary

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This world is filled with talented and superb actors, actresses, performers, artists and musicians, yet I can’t help but notice their talents are being overlooked. Sadly, this is happening because of the insane obsession with the mute details of their personal lives that don’t touch anyone at all.

America has an unquenchable thirst for knowing everyone’s private life.  We need to know who shopped where, who’s dating who, who’s tanning at what beach, who’s wearing what and so on and so fourth.  None of this has anything to do with something that can touch our lives.  Instead it’s become an obsession that has caused paparazzi gangs to go and take pictures of these celebs while they are minding their own business. The frenzy has even led to people profiting off this information such as the Sun and Enquirer. These companies often take the truth and distort it while we fuel the fire by purchasing these publications.

We made television shows like the entire !E station that is dedicated to the red carpet and celebrity gossip, one of the hottest stations on television.  Then there are Joan and Melissa Rivers, the mother and daughter duo, who report about nothing except fashion blunders on the red carpet.  Don’t worry about the job these actors and actresses have done, it’s what they wore out in public that matters.

The insanity around this obsession has even turned Joan Rivers into a cat woman with plastic surgery, trying to avoid being on the wrong side of what she exploits. Quite ironic, don’t you think.  In doing so she ruined her face to avoid the same fate she gives her stars… oh, the hypocrisy of it all.

As Americans over the last few years we’ve become worried about our personal lives being exploited and known by the government.  It’s unseen that anyone should know our personal lives other than those whom we choose to tell.  If we were the target of such exploitation who knows what we’d do.  However, we don’t seem to have a problem when it’s done to our favorite stars.

We’ve completely made their personal lives more important and more in demand than the work they put out for us to enjoy.  Secrets have cost American Idol stars the championship, and have cost some celebrities major acting roles.

The paparazzi have even caused the famous to lose their lives, such as Princess Diana, just for a picture with her beau. In addition, they have ruined celebrities’ reputations, but at least we know what their personal lives entitle.  We say at The Expressionist, “Don’t give into the madness; it’s an invasion of privacy, and you wouldn’t want it done to you so why do it to someone else.”  Instead look at these people’s amazing talents and focus on that.  It’s what made them of interest in the first place.