tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16912487.post8201971052205937750..comments2023-08-13T04:47:32.173-05:00Comments on Mary Novaria : Celebrity Addiction as a Spectator SportMary Novariahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12279881310425620037noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16912487.post-7487396080862703792011-11-18T05:23:03.973-06:002011-11-18T05:23:03.973-06:00you are 110% right. We live in the spectator age. ...you are 110% right. We live in the spectator age. We are so installed in front of gossip websites, television shows, movies, novels, or even True Hollywood Stories (lets throw in the entire E! entertainment channel) that we dont even realize it. When do we realize when we try to stay away from those cunning institutions and fail. Do you know how many times i tried to quit documentaries, moves, tv shows. Maybe this is slightly of the topic but its more or less the same thing. Both celebrity watch addiction or following lives of fictional character are pretty much the same thing. My point is one of our greatest skills in comparison to animals is to be able to watch. only humans as animals take pleasure in watching as an activity. Yet so many times in turns on us and enslaves us. I used to wake up with a ______ gossip website. Now that bad habit is taken over by watching tv shows. I beginning to think that if this is not a conspiracy theory then governments are seeing our spectator addictions as something MORE THAN handy, cause while we are busy living other people's lives, politicians and other "normal" people are reaching their goals. I'm 23 now, i dunno when i turned 23. last time i checked i was 20. thats cause for the past 3 years not a day has passed without me watching a least one show.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16912487.post-71092096925965071282011-07-26T16:33:23.476-05:002011-07-26T16:33:23.476-05:00This is right on the money. Well-written and hones...This is right on the money. Well-written and honest. I can't help but think that we do anything in the States to distract ourselves from thinking seriously about more pressing issues like politics and global poverty. Do you imagine that the obsession with celebrities and celebrities' addiction problems cuts across socio-economic, racial, gender, religious...etc. lines in the U.S.? To me, it seems to be a question of what types of issues people choose to think about in their 'spare' time: money, philosophy, the debt ceiling, Dancing with the Stars...etc.meowseph89https://www.blogger.com/profile/14568629811729932247noreply@blogger.com