One of the growing problems in our world today is the obsession with celebrities. Different people in many different parts of the world may not have anything in common with each other... other than this obsession with the lives of celebrities, and this is spreading faster than a secret told to a woman!
Want proof? Well check this out, two people killed by some gangster-turned-MLA's motorcade, this gets one 6 line paragraph, but Deepika Padukone meets Ranbir Kapoor once, and its a whole god-forsaken half-a-page affair! Or lets say, people get robbed and killed by armed robbers, and some Scarlett Johansson gets a tattoo, which isn't any tattoo.. its supposed to have some secret meaning. Which one gets more space?
Obviously, the meaningful tattoo.
Its reached such a stage that when a celebrity wriggles a toe we have columnists writing long stories about how. when, where and why this act was conducted, while our very own home-grown astrologers take out their charts and make solemn predictions about how this act, because of being conducted at such-and-such time will affect their careers! So of course when an accident occurs, injuring or killing a few mere mortals like us, who cares? It'll probably get a small sentence somewhere, or maybe a full paragraph, if its gruesome enough.
Of course I understand that there is always a separate section for everything, national news, global news, sports news etc. But thanks to some creature called the paparazzi, which apparently chases celebrities and makes life hell for them and as a result gets bashed up by celebrities (which is quite understandable, i pity the poor celebs), these celebrities and their scandals or outbursts against the paps are all over the news, infringing even on the global news space!!!
So now everyone will know that a deep-something pad-u-cone met some Run-beer guy somewhere, but very few will know hat the Great barrier reef has been damaged by oil leaks, or that an oil slick was spreading in the Gulf of Mexico.. or even rarer still, that there was a bomb threat in New York.
And this is what annoys me the most, the things i read, and hence talk about are alien-speak to most of my neighbors, so they just keep ignoring me like they would a mad dog, and continue with their 'highly important' discussion about some Ranbir Johansson's scarlet tattoo
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