Celebrities make babies, is there anything they can't do? Oh yeah, sing, dance, act, clean, dress themselves, read, think...lots of stuff.
I don't know why this is, but for some reason in the US, what our celebrities do is of UTMOST IMPORTANCE. Several minutes of every news cast are reserved for celebrity gossip. There are entire hours on our cable "news" networks, during prime viewing time, devoted to the comings and goings of our celebrities. Hell, there's a whole goddamn channel devoted to their worthless lives, not to mention the millions of trees slaughtered for the altar of celebrity gossip. Of course, there's NOTHING ELSE going on in the world, so why shouldn't the hours and pages be filled with celebrity ass kissing.
What I'm guessing is that this becomes sort of a sucking whirlpool of stupidity. Trust me, it isn't just young people who take their cues from celebrities. Why do you think every woman is carrying some awful, huge, bejewled purse monstrosity, or wearing a jewled broach the size of a satellite dish? Because the fucking she-lebrities have 'em. Why are more and more men shaving off their body hair? Because the worthless he-lebrities don't have body hair any more. (why? I do not know) One can choose to do some research and find out what's going on in the world but it's a whole lot easier to sit back and let endless waves of celebrity news clear your mind. As a result, those programs and magazines do better in the ratings and the programmers replace more and more actual news with celebrity news. So then there's more of it, and more lazy bastards watching it, because you don't ever have to muddle through any weird accents, or worry about how world affairs effect you, or how you affect the world and potentially feel bad about that, because celebrities really play no part at all in the real world. It's just a big dumb soap opera that gets shoved up all our butts.
Damn, I hate celebrities.