Hello??....Is this what America is truly interested in? We're more interested in the life of some young woman who had the world by the short hairs a few years ago and then spiralled into her Godless, self-absorbed world of self-annihilation than we are about our neighbor?
Skunky
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First : "neighbour" is spelled : neighbo
ur, none of your American spellings here !
Secondly, does this not occur in the news every day, Skunky? This, surely, is what the world is now all about! Celebrity has nothing to do with real people, it has become just another commodity. It is traded on the stock exchanges of the world ( in various guises ) as easily as sugar or oil. We in the west have helped to create the monster because we in the west need the monster to replace values and traditions which are dead and gone.
The irony is that, as you so eloquently point out, lacking any self-belief, or belief in anything which transcends the empirical world, the young lady in question has become the epitome of the instantly, self-destructive society which we have helped to foster.
Why this should be, I don't know. What to do, I know not.
I do know that once you have sucked on the teat of the press, there's no way it will leave you alone. Remember The Chief's words to MacMurphy about his alchoholic father:
" He thought that he was sucking out from the bottle, but it was just sucking him into it ! "
That's what has happened to Britney. She has become a girl in a bottle.
The press have to act out a rise and fall of biblical proportions every day in order to replace the original.
There but for......
Let's hope she gets the help she needs.