Celebrities are NOT Our Buddies!

We are NOT in the Same Boat with Them, Never were and Never Will Be

The day when American youth especially in blue states began to relate to rich Hollywood celebrities MORE than to their neighbors voting red, was the beginning of American demise.

I mean, in the last century, there was ALWAYS a healthy sense of distance between us ordinary people and celebrities. Yeah, as a side effect of it, celebrities, especially rock or movie stars (like The Beatles or Marlon Brando, see his handsome face below) were often idolized but still, this healthy sense of distance between us and them was preserved. It was largely understood that their money and fame set them apart. No one in their sane mind would have thought of a celebrity as their buddy or neighbor.

Sadly, social media had changed that. When celebrities began to upload their mundane lives on social media, this distance was bridged. Suddenly people realized that celebrities aren’t gods or idols they made of them, but are human just like themselves. This realization is true and not bad in itself, but it led to disastrous consequences though.

Also, it became possible to contact celebrities on social media and sometimes even get a response. Unreachable was reached, and former gods were exiled to Earth. That also irreversibly changed public perception of celebrities.

You see, when ordinary people saw that celebrities are just as human as them, they began to RELATE to them as if they were their buddies or neighbors, and that was the beginning of all trouble. Celebrities aren’t gods, but their money and fame still set them apart, making them totally unrelatable to us ordinary people with our ordinary struggles. This understanding was sadly lost.

Which struggles exactly do I mean? Well, celebrities don’t have to think how could they pay their bills unlike us. They could buy any property they want, and travel to any part of our planet at any moment. Hence, they totally do NOT understand financial struggles of ordinary people. And, although money can’t buy everything, not love and health for example, they certainly could make our lives much more comfortable and easy.

And it’s not just money, it’s also fame. We regular people don’t know how it feels when billions of people all over the world could easily recognize you. Celebrities do know. And it inevitably changes their lives and their worldview. It might boost their egos turning them into narcissists. Or, in the contrary, it might make them scared of public, desperately longing for privacy they couldn’t easily get. Again, we ordinary people don’t understand this struggle for privacy - we could have our privacy at any point, we’re not pursued by exalted army of fans any time we make a public appearance after all.

My point is that we ordinary people and celebrities are certainly different in very major ways. It’s not that we’re better than them or other way around. We just have very different struggles, and do not really understand each other struggles. We live in two separate realities which almost do not overlap. Indeed, apart from being human (though looking at some Hollywood celebs who were Epstein clients I doubt they’re still human, but it’s a different convo altogether), we have NOTHING in common with these people.

Yet it doesn’t prevent many young people from relating to them! Indeed, if you’d ask an average American young woman (especially from a blue state again!), she’d tell you that for example Taylor Swift is MUCH MORE RELATABLE to her than ANY regular Republican voter in her vicinity. And if you don’t see a HUGE problem with young people relating to shady billionaires (Taylor Swift is a billionaire, by the way!) more than to their working-class fellows voting for different party, I don’t know what’s wrong with you. Relating to celebrities and billionaires like to buddies is so huge distortion of reality that I have not enough words in my vocabulary to properly condemn it.

Also, why do people ALWAYS have to go to the extremes? First they treated celebrities like gods, now like buddies…Why healthy middle ground is not possible? But, if it indeed not possible, I’d million times prefer treating celebrities like idols but preserving a healthy distance between us rather than believing Taylor Swift is our ‘bestie’, sigh.