Ahhh… the lure and trap of celebrity, with it's empty promise to satiate the insatiable. The deceptive cure-all for everything, from poverty, to deep-seated insecurities and personal attention deficits. The in-club that always sells more memberships that it can bear, but always has room for those to queue up, fawn unquestionably and buy celebrity endorsed rubbish. When I was young I never understood this phenomenon and always thought celebrities as nothing more than grossly overpaid pompous shits. Cretins propped upon godlike pedestals to be worshipped as the golden calves of our age. Set above the law and clearly apart from the mundane common man, this type of repellent personality is something I've always found abhorrent and disgusting.
That being said, I've stumbled upon another brilliant documentary entitled 'Starsuckers' that investigates this industry on many different levels. It explores and defines society's programmed deification of celebrities, the manufactured psychopathological need to follow and emulate them as well. It delves into the empowerment of these preening narcissists politically to advance state agendas. In short it is a powerful film exposé on the techniques of mass mind subversion and conditioning. Exploiting humanity's inherent predisposition to follow and emulate the successful or avail themselves to the proximity of individuals whom exude these traits. How they explicitly target the young to indoctrinate them to become complicit consumer drones following glamourised pied pipers. News is now 'advertainment' sanitised of anything that threatens to provoke independent thinking and jeopardise status quo, and at it's core it's direct spoon-fed propaganda.
It is profoundly disturbing in its implications and predatory cunning. I think viewers will be especially be awestruck at the documentary's exposure of the Live 8 scam in the last video segment. Bob Geldorf is a right cunt, a soul-abandoned shamble of a predatory perpetrator. I truly hope he's one day struck down by a solid frozen load of shit/piss amalgamate straight fallen from the loo tank of an airliner cruising at 51,000 km.
So, give it a go, invest a small bit of time and feel free to chat up your take on it here if so inclined.
Starsuckers in it's entirety can be viewed here: STARSUCKERS
Cheers to Slozo and Penny for alerting me to the links that were suddenly taken down.
Cheers to Slozo and Penny for alerting me to the links that were suddenly taken down.
