Our Guilty Pleasure Created By Todays Media

I realize that the media makes it's money off of the expense of the popular public, and shame on us for getting off on gossip and speculation. Media gives us what they feel we want to see and hear, we give them direction. If they see that we aren't buying into these horrible breaking news stories (of paparrazi chasing popular people while trying to get their life straight, and are no longer interested in looking at photos of celebrities eating, gaining weight during pregnancy and claiming them fat, and whether or not they have celullite or not) then they have no choice but to change what they put out.

This nation is obsessed with impossible perfection. We want to believe that celebrities are truly as perfect as they are digitally enhanced, airbrushed, and botoxed to be, because it justifies why we worship, admire, and look up to them even more, it justifies why we spend money to support their career, why every day people are known as common folk, and they as super human. It gives us false illusions and false fantasy and hope to aspire to be like these manufactured, polished, tucked and pulled folk who at the end of the day are really trying to live somewhat normal and balanced lives just like you and I. When there is news that gets out that brings us all back down to reality and the fact that these "super humans" are really just... human, and it's been smoke and mirrors all along, it gives many people a guilty pleasure. You'd think we'd be disappointed (which some are), but most celebrate the proof and get off on that extra boost of confidence that should make us all feel ashamed of ourselves. A boost of confidence at anothers expense will only bring you bad karma, for it will only generate and attract negative energy to your self and own life.

At the expense of these peoples lives who are now torn apart by paparazzi and people in their camp who they cannot trust, we get off on what more can be revealed about their 'oh so normal just like us lives?' It can often make ones horrible day 10x better when they see before and after photos of an idolized celebrity, and see where they have crows feet wrinkles, lip injections, and botox. I can't tell you how many women exhibited signs of feeling better about their hopeless dating situation, when they heard all of the publicized news of Halle Berry and her bad relationships with men. It's like a guilty pleasure of human beings, and we've created our own hellish problem. We can't all blame the media, because it's us who fuels it!