But there is this insatiable need to be "intimate" with our idols - to possess them, but also to feel elevated by them somehow. Perhaps on some level we're using them to fill the hole left by the belief in gods. But we forget they are human beings who fuck up like everyone else and have the same wants and needs as the rest of us.
Very wise. I also think it's true because we treat these celebrities like heroes from the myths.
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Date: 2014-02-18 07:04 pm (UTC)But there is this insatiable need to be "intimate" with our idols - to possess them, but also to feel elevated by them somehow. Perhaps on some level we're using them to fill the hole left by the belief in gods. But we forget they are human beings who fuck up like everyone else and have the same wants and needs as the rest of us.
Very wise. I also think it's true because we treat these celebrities like heroes from the myths.