The thread title should be: "Is there a social impact from celebrity obsession?"
So much has been said recently about a certain scumbag that is about to go the slammer and another scumbag who was wasted after a party. Several months ago I read about a study of teens in the UK and most of them thought that being a celebrity was the best things in the world!
Seriously, when and how did it come to this? Does it have anything to do with the easy money that celebrities can earn? Also, is there any longer term social or economic consequence to kids being obsessed with these phony, lewd, talentless, sometimes barely literate celebrities?
I really don't know. I just think that celebrity factor is a heap of crap. So many of these celebs can't string a sentence together. Numerous athletes would be homeless, unemployed or in jail somewhere if not for their "talent", whatever that means.