The Reality Show Based Community – Part Two

Gimme the readys
Gimme the cash
Gimme a bullet
Gimme a smash
Gimme a silver gimme a gold
Make it a million for when I get old

Art for arts sake
Money for Gods sake
Art for Arts sake
Money for Gods sake

(Stewart, Gouldman, Art for Art’s Sake)

Fame at whatever cost:

And we can’t begin to list all the pseudo, wannabe and semi-celebrities who shamelessly threw themselves into the limelight, from the Gosselins to the endless stream of Michael Jackson mourners to the gyrating, guy-kissing Adam Lambert, who seems to grow in stature with each show that cancels him.

Lambert, an “American Idol” runner-up, is one of Barbara Walters’ most fascinating people of the year.

Really? For what?

Doesn’t matter. We’ve reached the point where the “what” is superfluous to the “wow.” So people flock to learn more about the cocktail waitress who last week claimed to have had a long affair with Tiger Woods, and while Woods is chided for his alleged infidelity, no one seems to question why this woman chose to get involved with one of the most famous married people on the planet. Does it shock you to learn she’s a minor figure on a reality TV show herself? Why isn’t the lust for a headline as decried as the lust for flesh?

It’s as if fame for fame’s sake is now an accepted motivation.

And this is where the world gets dangerous.

Indeed it does. Gimme a bullet, gimme a smash. Gimme fame over any other thing in the universe. Don’t listen to – or don’t even have – that little bit of a sense of decency that everyone should have.

This will not end well. That script running in your head is not how the real world works.