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[Sebatianos]

General thoughts about celebrity worship:

- People like to gossip.
- The lesser the inteligence, the bigger the need to gossip.
- The smaller the understanding of the world, the biggere the importance of gossip.

So as long as there are ignorant people who know of nothing outside their small neighbourhoods and there will be gossip. Nowdays the vast majority of those people has at least a TV, so they don't need to gossip so much about their neighbours any more, but they can gossip about celebritys or about some sopa operas (and that's exactly what they do). This gives them a lot to gossip about without actually talking about people they personally know.
On one hand they feel more intelegent (they are gossiping about people the whole world knows) and on the other hand no-one gets hurt (if you gossip your neighbour he might get angy with you).
And to top it off - even the media helps them!

So we have a closed cycle of yellow press (that started this sort of media), TV shows (mostly talk shows or soap operas - there they can talk about the adoultry, and other brainless stuff they like to talk about not realising these aren't real people) and the local gossip.

There's no way of stoping it - unless you know how to raise the average IQ on the planet by 20 points.