"Celebrity" Culture

Ok, I was going to save this for a video-rant but if I don't get this off my chest now I think I'm going to explode I am just that angry about this.

I went downstairs about five minutes ago so that I could get something to eat. Not wanting to take the food upstairs, I stayed downstairs and watched whatever my mum was watching, which, as usual, turned out to be absolute crap: "Peter Andre: Going it Alone". Peter motherfucking Andre, does anybody give a shit about him anymore? I never gave a shit about him apart from when I was watching him getting tortured on I'm a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here. Since appearing on that show however I could not have cared less about him and his marriage to Katie Price through which both "celebrities" made a come back with television shows, magazine interviews and ridiculously huge public interest. Who gives a shit about either of them? I think this is a fucked up country when we can back these people up and give them our undivided attention while people actually worth mentioning are grossly underpaid and under-thanked. Doctors, nurses, soldiers (fighting for the freedom of another country), police, firemen, the every day hero(ine) etc etc. are all ignored by the public because these so-called celebrities of our time are for some reason worshipped like fucking gods. There is a Buddhist saying that goes something like this "Worship the moon and not the hand pointing to the moon" this was basically to tell people not to worship false gods or even Buddha himself because of course, Buddha is not a god. Celebrities aren't the moon, nor are they the hand pointing to the moon, in fact if they were pointing to a moon it'd be one of the many orbiting around Jupiter, that is how far off being a god these "celebrities" are.

Two more soldiers died in Afghanistan recently, doctors throughout the world have probably saved hundreds or even thousands of lives just today, police have probably caught hundreds of criminals and soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have probably made steady progress in restoring peace to the middle-east. These people have done amazing things for the world and I thank them for their continuing efforts despite their only public presence tending to be when they occasionally get things wrong.

Some celebrity probably received an award for something they don't deserve, another will have made a pointless speech, another will have had a meaningless interview with the press about how their day was. and another will have had their hair cut in the trendiest of hair salons and by one of the world's top hair dressers. I will enjoy spitting on your god-damn graves! These people do not deserve our admiration and devotion. I don't care what Gordon Ramsey had for breakfast, I don't care how many boob jobs Katie Price is having and I don't care which celebrity is dating which celebrity!

People stood by Michael Jackson despite the molestation charges, the stupidity of his plastic surgery and the near-dropping of his child over a balcony. Yet the people of this country (or 57% of them according to a survey by Sky News) do not support our troops who are fighting for the freedom and basic human rights of the people of the middle-east. Welcome to the modern world and all of it's fucked up people.