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A feature article in the The Weekend
Australian newspaper Magazine on April 2-3 2005 called
"TRIUMPH OF THE AIRHEADS" featured Pairs Hilton and the
article stated "In the new age of ignorance Paris Hilton is
a role model and idiocy rules. How did this
happen?"...So in a
debt crisis fueled by Credit Card spending gone wildly astray young
women today (and a lot of young men!) are seeing the "Triumph of
Airheads" as something to strive for which is interesting to say
the least.
We are in the age of girls/women's magazines
which is saying it is okay to be dumb and dumber? A lot of women's
magazines have created celebrity status and have given certain
celebrity's these deranged feelings of over self importance. Young
women read these magazines religiously and can quote at a whim
anything about would be celebrities. They can do this whilst
quoting the pro's and cons of breast
augmentation.
There is such a proliferation of women's
magazines available that newsagents and supermarket shelves are
full of the vast array of them. To state that women's magazines are
out of control might be called over zealous but it's scary with
very few offering anything of real interest or substance...for
men!
We now in 2009 live in a society that
worships celebrities as gods and that is very sad indeed. Media and
celebrities combined control peoples reading habits daily.
Celebrities are just people at the end of the day and will always
be. If this celebrity worshiping continues and by all accords
it looks like it will society is well and truly on the way to
Idiocracy...or has it well and truly already
arrived...?
P.S. It seems ironic that in 2007 Paris
Hilton was ordered to serve a 45 day prison sentence whilst driving
when disqualified.
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