{"id":1413,"date":"2003-01-14T07:33:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-14T07:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog2\/?p=1413"},"modified":"2003-01-14T07:33:00","modified_gmt":"2003-01-14T07:33:00","slug":"the_burden_of_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/the_burden_of_f\/","title":{"rendered":"the burden of fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

so, i taped the jfk jr movie<\/a> sunday night. i don’t know why, but i thought it might be interesting in a historical sense. i should have known better. i mean, it’s a tbs original movie, for god’s sake.
\nafter getting home from a very long and mostly unfulfilling monday at work, i pressed “play” and started to watch it. half way through, i became utterly disgusted with myself. i couldn’t belive i was watching such tabloid schlock. if i were jon-jon or jackie-o, i’d have been thrashing about in my grave. i stopped the tape, lept from the futon and stalked into the kitchen where i started to do something productive instead of giving into the celebrity hype machine and gossip mongering which made that piece of tripe possible.
\nseriously, what did john kennedy jr do beside be born to an american president (albeit, a very popular one)? what about his life made him deserving of such fame and devotion? nothing. he was smart and charismatic, yes. he was charming and handsome, yes. but did he contribute anything to business, science, or society? not so much. so why are the fawning and fussing?
\nyes, it’s a sad story. the kennedys do indeed appear to be cursed in some manner. tragedy seems to haunt them from generation to generation. but, really, do you think that makes them worthy of any more attention than a non-descript family in the mid-west who have had just as many losses through the years?
\nthe more i think about it, the more the idea of celebrity disgusts me. just because someone gets paid a lot of money to act or sing or paint or write doesn’t make them worthy of such blind devotion. there are equally talented people out there in the world who don’t do it (whatever that may be) for the attention, but for the love of the craft. there are even people out there without such singular talents who are much, much better people in many small ways that even the most lauded humanitarian. why aren’t they praised in the same manner as the guy who gets on tv?
\nmaybe it’s human nature to seek someone to idolize. we’ve had gods and kings and actors and politicians and heros all though history. we’ve immortalized these leaders in marble, bronze, paint, poetry, prose and songs. maybe we’re all just lemmings with toys and a big vocabularies. maybe we just don’t know how to be happy with who we are. putting our fates and dreams in the hands of others… doesn’t it all seem a little silly? they can’t possibly care about each and every one of us. we should take care of ourselves. praise ourselves for all the skills and talents we possess. maybe if we stop relying on others to make us famous, we won’t need to exalt pop culture figures to make us feel complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

so, i taped the jfk jr movie sunday night. i don’t know why, but i thought it might be interesting in a historical sense. i should have known better. i mean, it’s a tbs original movie, for god’s sake. after getting home from a very long and mostly unfulfilling monday at work, i pressed “play” …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fubsy.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}