The border between fame and celebrity is as undetectable as it is ill-defined, and not all detect or define it the same way. A wit has defined a celebrity as someone who is famous for being famous, and Katelyn Beaty’s new book follows along this path by quoting from Daniel Boorstin, who long ago said a “celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.” Think the Kardashians.
C. Wright Mills, in The Power Elite, identifies several elite groups such as the economic elite and political elite. One group he identifies is celebrities. He said the key asset of a celebrity is celebrity status. So that status has to be maintained. A person known for doing good just needs to keep doing good. (tov).
Thanks, for this, Scott. Here’s a quote from Tim Keller’s, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness: Empty, painful, busy and, therefore, fragile. Let me give you a perfect example of this. I am not trying to lift her up as being worse than other people at all. She actually shows a tremendous amount of self-awareness and I have a lot of admiration for her. But, if you want a perfect example of what I am talking about, here is an excerpt from an interview with Madonna in Vogue Magazine some time ago where she is talking about her career. This is what she says: ‘My drive in life comes from a fear of being mediocre. That is always pushing me. I push past one spell of it and discover myself as a special human being but then I feel I am still mediocre and uninteresting unless I do something else. Because even though I have become somebody, I still have to prove that I am somebody. My struggle has never ended and I guess it never will.’
C. Wright Mills, in The Power Elite, identifies several elite groups such as the economic elite and political elite. One group he identifies is celebrities. He said the key asset of a celebrity is celebrity status. So that status has to be maintained. A person known for doing good just needs to keep doing good. (tov).
Thanks, for this, Scott. Here’s a quote from Tim Keller’s, The Freedom of Self-Forgetfulness: Empty, painful, busy and, therefore, fragile. Let me give you a perfect example of this. I am not trying to lift her up as being worse than other people at all. She actually shows a tremendous amount of self-awareness and I have a lot of admiration for her. But, if you want a perfect example of what I am talking about, here is an excerpt from an interview with Madonna in Vogue Magazine some time ago where she is talking about her career. This is what she says: ‘My drive in life comes from a fear of being mediocre. That is always pushing me. I push past one spell of it and discover myself as a special human being but then I feel I am still mediocre and uninteresting unless I do something else. Because even though I have become somebody, I still have to prove that I am somebody. My struggle has never ended and I guess it never will.’