Richard Briers has passed away.
RIP - Mr Briers |
There have been many others.
This has led me to think about a thought I had quite
recently involving famous people and celebrities.
The thought was this: are we running out?
The answer is: I think we are.
Celebrity DNA Far superior than ours. |
Celebrities are dying out at an alarming rate. Some estimates
rate their decline to be almost as fast as the tiger or dragon.
There simply are not enough celebrities being born in the
wild. Think about it. When was the last time you heard of a famous person being
born?
Princess Kate is tubbed up as we all know, but beyond her
when is the next one due?
By the time our future queen shits a baby out of her tummy
there will probably be a good dozen famous deaths across the world.
Within our life time celebrities could become extinct.
Zoologists and scientists (them again) have tried in vain to
breed celebrities in captivity. Most famously with televised experiments such
as Big Brother and Dancing On Ice and the like, unfortunately due to the
already dwindling supply of grade A celebrity genes, they have had to rely on
lesser forms of commonly recognised names and faces.
Even with advent of four ITV channels spewing endless talent
shows for the mentally malnourished, or any piss weak vehicle for Peter Andre
to gurn his way through (note Andre is an anomalous creature who WAS famous for
singing ONE song then became un-famous for a few years and then slept with a
woman who breasts are more famous than she is and he became famous again) and
even the tireless efforts of the morons who came up with the idea of following
gypsies around for a bit are unable to repopulate celebrity livestock for any
sustainable amount of time.
"If you want to be famous, you'll have to lower your right arm love.." |
It has got the point where those in charge of repopulating
the celebrity gene pool have resorted to classing none famous people as famous
because they were accidently put in celebrity shows in a bid to make the lesser
celebrity feel more important.
The repopulation of the celebrity world has become so
diluted that some have been forced to adopt. Elton John, Brad Pitt etc. these
mega celebrities are now unable to prepopulate their clans and have had to seek
outside help.
This does solve the problem in the short term as their
children become famous automatically but there is no guarantee that these
offspring will stay famous as they mature.
If something is not done the DNA sequence that separates the
mighty and great celeb will become so diluted with lesser forms of famousness
that we are in danger of not having any recognisable names and faces for our
future generations to admire, follow, sleep with, bribe or stalk.
Is this TOO little TOO late? |
The problem of course, is that very few people have done
anything worth y of being celebrated. The essence of being a celebrity is that
you have done something worthy of praise.
Taking your clothes off, texting a footballer or singing
badly is not in itself a reason to expect others to revere you in some god like
state.
Being good at something however – does. Be it sport, art or
changing the world in some way for the better should be enough to allow one to
become a celebrity. Unfortunately being good isn't enough as our tastes have
become so macabre and masochistic that nothing short of the most depraved acts
of self worthlessness and desperation are enough to keep our interest for more
than five minutes.
Fly by night one hit wonders do not a celebrity make. Nor does
a lady without her vest on.
What we need are hero’s.
Champions.
What we have is Ashley Cole and some prick named Dappy.
I have no idea and desire to know who or what you think you are. |
We are screwed!
Celebrities aren't in danger of dying out, they're just evolving at an alarming rate. With the advent of Geordie Shore, Made In Essex and The Only Way Is TOWIE (or whatever the hell they're called), celebrities are becoming an army of Terracotta Warriors. Bleached skin, sculpted drones without original thought or acquired skills.
ReplyDeleteBut as ask - Are they WORTH celebrating or should we throw poo at them? I know what my answer would be.
DeleteHello Mr H did I hear you needed a hero . . . . As it happens I agree celebs are not what they were in the old days but there are too many media outlets I think in the old days of cinema, all celebs were film folk like Clarke Gable and Dorothy Lamour James Dean and the like. But well the likes of Youtube and multi channel television have ensured that we are now all equal, however sadly it is only the total idiots who appear on all these media options. No one actually wishes to learn anything that might take more than ten minutes so we are left with a situation where a dog can win Britain's got talent (I'm sure a dog won I don't watch these things so I could be wrong). My own view is that if a dog has more talent you then you can not be a celeb.
ReplyDeleteI for one will remain here in cyberspace where I am revered as a genius a man amongst men a cult so cultish that I am known only to those that know me. Where I am treated as a God. . . only two little old ladies come to see me on Sundays.
If there was a church of Rob I would sign up to the monthly news letter. I would even pop along to a coffe morning or two and drop off some unwanted items for a carboot sale or something.
DeleteBut don't harrass me for money though. Thats not church is about.
This post is absolute genius! That is all. :)
ReplyDeleteYou are a very astute young lady. I've always said that about you. ahaha. Thanks Lil. :)
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