In case you haven't heard, Madonna and Guy Ritchie are getting divorced. Numerous tabloid magazine covers blasting it out to us have made this fact abundantly clear. It's impossible to miss.
A statement announcing the divorce asked the media to respect their privacy. Yeah, right. Celebrities know they can't be frequently in the headlines (which are vital to their career) and expect anybody to respect their privacy during hard times. It's almost a law. What was Madonna's spokespeople thinking when they wrote that blurb?
Even though we don't really have a choice in the matter in this case, many of would seek this story out even if it weren't so readily available. We love seeing big dramatic events such as this. We enjoy witnessing the carnage in its wake. Besides, it's an unwritten law that celebrities have to share their life with us, especially the bad moments.
I think that we also enjoy seeing what was once a mystery, finally revealed. We've sat in wonder at the marriage of these two famous people. We wonder how anyone with that kind of fame and fortune could really have a healthy home life as well. So the mystery is revealed, in big and flashy truth--they were not happy!
On one hand, we envy and want to emulate famous and rich people. We envy their status and their luxurious lives. We envy just about everything we imagine them to have. They seem successful, and we covet it.
But we also want their lives to fall apart. We want this partly out of jealousy, but mostly to validate our own existence, our own self-worth. We see Madonna's sad life and we say, "She may be rich and famous, but she doesn't have what I have."
Celebrities live lives that don't seem realistic. Madonna portrays herself as this person with enormous financial success, while living a bohemian artist's life. She represents what many imagine to be total sexual freedom. Her newfound interest in Kabbalah also suggests that she has a spiritually fulfilling life.
But when we see her entire life falling apart, we see that it was all a show. The sad fact is that the reality makes a better show than what she contrived. - 15431
A statement announcing the divorce asked the media to respect their privacy. Yeah, right. Celebrities know they can't be frequently in the headlines (which are vital to their career) and expect anybody to respect their privacy during hard times. It's almost a law. What was Madonna's spokespeople thinking when they wrote that blurb?
Even though we don't really have a choice in the matter in this case, many of would seek this story out even if it weren't so readily available. We love seeing big dramatic events such as this. We enjoy witnessing the carnage in its wake. Besides, it's an unwritten law that celebrities have to share their life with us, especially the bad moments.
I think that we also enjoy seeing what was once a mystery, finally revealed. We've sat in wonder at the marriage of these two famous people. We wonder how anyone with that kind of fame and fortune could really have a healthy home life as well. So the mystery is revealed, in big and flashy truth--they were not happy!
On one hand, we envy and want to emulate famous and rich people. We envy their status and their luxurious lives. We envy just about everything we imagine them to have. They seem successful, and we covet it.
But we also want their lives to fall apart. We want this partly out of jealousy, but mostly to validate our own existence, our own self-worth. We see Madonna's sad life and we say, "She may be rich and famous, but she doesn't have what I have."
Celebrities live lives that don't seem realistic. Madonna portrays herself as this person with enormous financial success, while living a bohemian artist's life. She represents what many imagine to be total sexual freedom. Her newfound interest in Kabbalah also suggests that she has a spiritually fulfilling life.
But when we see her entire life falling apart, we see that it was all a show. The sad fact is that the reality makes a better show than what she contrived. - 15431
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