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October 25, 2012
No, it’s not Buddhism, or Hinduism, or any of the isms.
It’s celebrity worship, and according to statistics, almost a third of the world's population is afflicted.
Well, you could have hit me with a stack of vintage Photoplay magazines.
I know this has to be true since it now has a technical name, Celebrity worship syndrome— a moniker coined by the Daily Mail a few years ago, no doubt, on a slow day.
According to experts, CWS has three phases.
The first phase is fairly harmless, even fun— staring at a headline on one of those star tabloids. Now, if you pick it up, and continue the story inside, you still just have a mild version.
I’m not sure what happens if you have to continue the story on still another page, but I’ll do some further digging and get back to you.
Celebrity worship, however, in phase 3 gets less harmless, when you start expressing yourself with feelings like these:
“I share a special bond with him/her that cannot be described in words.”
When the him/her begins "sharing that bond" with you, known as erotomania, you are officially in need of help.
Now, while some of our Ph.D’s are working on fan worship, others are working on
a syndrome, I’d call, celebrity self-worship syndrome. (CSWS)
(Anyone can come up with a syndrome.)
It seems all this CWS has empowered some celebrities to think they actually have something to say.
The only difference is that Narcissus didn’t know whose reflection he was falling in love with and celebrities greet their reflection with aren't I interesting.
In a “Psychology Today” article, Ph.D, Gad Saad says that celebrities, "driven by narcissism, think they can cure the world's ills."
“Tom Cruise castigated psychiatry for being pure quackery...Kirk Cameron, Ben Stein, and Mel Gibson each have their own theory of evolution.”
Then there are, among others:
Gwyneth Paltrow, who named her first born after a fruit, is claiming that shampoo causes cancer in children who can’t metabolize its toxins.
Suzanne Somers’ hormone therapy replacement program is “an elixir of youth."
And Madonna neutralizes radiation at a Ukrainian Lake with Kabbalah Fluid. How, we don't know.
What to do? My advice is to match your CWS with the right CSWS you can live with...in a manner of speaking.
So what do you think is going on with Jen? Looking for love in all the wrong places? Or is it all part of a preconceived strategy?
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There were three phases of CWS in Fan Francisco tonight. Phase 1) In his first at bat, Pablo Sandoval homers off Justin Verlander. Phase 2) In his second at bat Pablo Sandoval homers off Justin Verlander. Phase 3) In his third at bat, Pablo Sandoval homers off Al Alburquerque.
Miss Jane has got to be smiling!
Is it me or is CWS just a fancy way of saying someone is a stalker, or CSWS is a fancy way of saying someone has let the fame go to their head and they are now barking mad? I wish I could find my friend's open letter about the escalation of fan behavior, she hit the nail on the head without a Phd or research money. But then again I probably shouldn't be pointing fingers since the only relationship I've had since April has been with my TV. Men on TV are better than real live men because you don't have to cook, clean, entertain, support, and provide for them. And you can always turn them off when they get annoying. Why yes I have resigned my myself to crazy cat lady status, why do you ask?
Paolos I'm cheering for the Giants because 1) I love The City. 2) I really don't want to see Detroit win. 3) My ex father in law and my ex husband are HUGE Dodgers fans. Nuff said.
Oh I am, Paolo! I am. 3 for 3...fantastic ...and puts Pablo Sandoval in a class with only 3 others, Babe Ruth, Reggie Jackson and Albert Pujols.
Nachista, I don't mean to laugh...really I don't, but crazy cat lady status? I promise not to ask. hahaha. Go Giants! Dodgers fans? Nuff said indeed.
Haha, Nachista, my colleagues say if I don't do something about it, I will be a cat lady, and one day, it will be in the newspapers that I had died without anyone knowing and that the cats had to eat me up......
My answer is but if I do something about it, what are the return policies?
Hi Jane, hi Paolos!
The A.erican Psychological Association no longer considers "narcissicistic personality syndrome" to be a recognised disorder, the "reason" being largely the fact that so darned many people (many of whom are very powerful or popular) are so afflicted. Funny, when I was a kid the argument that "everybody does it" got me nowhere with my dad.....a good thing. Selfishness and narcissism go hand in hand, and rabid narcissists don't give a rat's arse about those less fortunate, minorities, or political opponents. The exception would be "caring" because it would be self-serving or politically correct. "Money" often becomes focal, along with fame & fortune. Please excuse me from worshiping celebrities, unless the celebrity might otherwise be worthy of emulation. Abraham Lincoln would never tolerate values consistent with celebrity status. Values and doing the right thing even when nobody's watching don't play well on the stage of celebrity, although "pretenders" abound. All of this being said, I love baseball.....but it is a sport, not big business. Give me a seat in Wrigley Field's bleachers on a sunny day with the breeze blowing in from Lake Michigan, everyone is equal among those fans, ans sportsmanship still matters...
NACHISTA---BARKING MAD, I LOVE THAT, YOU MADE MY MORNING LAUGHING TO GO TO WORK. PEACEFUL DAY TO ALL!
The mystics that matter to me eschewed self importance & instead taught that true self love began by reaching outside of oneself to serve others. Conversely the less one loves himself the more important it becomes to have the admiration of others. Looking your best, feeling good and maximizing your talents to earn your living should be taught to run concurrent with humbleness not as opposites constantly at war within. I admire human performance and forgive human fragility and value the lessons I learn-both good and bad but heroes and false gods lead to a loss of faith and to a cynical outlook the most miserable state of the human condition and I will not visit that temple of doom.
No celebrity worship here, but I do know people who live for the newest People magazine and know every nuance of Hollywood's glitterati's private lives, movies, and latest performance. I can't even tell you who is "hot" right now. When TMZ comes on, I flip to any other channel.
I agree with Mr. P that there is too much vicarious adoration going on with some people living out their lives as if they are BFF's with the current (or even older) celebs. My affection for Hollywood faces goes back to old movies and praise for those long passed on, like Gregory Peck and Steve McQueen, Maureen O'Hara (tho she is still alive, I think) and Katherine Hepburn. So, in addition to being a member of Spring and Nachista's "crazy cat lady" club, I enjoy sitting in my favorite brown leather recliner, purring cat in my lap, and watching an old movie, like "Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation, " and others.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=maureen+o'hara+Jimmy+Stewart+iin+movies&mid=52F7D18BA0E7B03EFC3B52F7D18BA0E7B03EFC3B&view=detail&FORM=VIRE1
Interview w/Maureen O'Hara on her 90th b'day...
http://fan.tcm.com/_Maureen-O39Hara-90th-Birthday-Interview/video/1546495/66470.html
Just kidding, I could never have indoor cats, I can barely stand 1 dog and 2 chinchillas. But the rest of the whole crazy cat lady lifestyle is set (baggy cardigans with kleenex tucked up the sleeves, a bowl of hard candy fused into one giant blob, a handy broom to chase those gosh darn whippersnappers off my lawn)...oh I should be a crazy cat lady for Halloween, think anyone would be offended?
Bert you hit the proverbial nail on the head my friend.
Mooseloop, I'm with you I am sick of talentless hacks being famous and adored because they are willing to make fools of themselves in public. Bring back real talent and shut out the nitwits.
Nachista - From yesterday's posts: "Madam I'm Adam" was one I thought of too, from Katherine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy's "Desk Set" movie. I could not find that clip, but I remember it too. Good one!
Miss MooseL ~ That was a great interview. I liked her line…It may be fun for you, but I have to kick the bucket and go to heaven
and I wouldn’t want ‘em waiting for me there. It reminds me of a Fulton J
Sheen story about Jonah and the whale. The Bishop was asked what it would be
like to be in the belly of a whale. He replied, I don’t know, but when I get to heaven I will ask Jonah. The
gentleman countered with, What if he isn’t
there? To which the Bishop replied, Then
when you die, you ask him.
There was also a clip of Maureen dancing backwards mixed in with that bunch. Would have been topical yesterday in a backwards kind of way.
Is anyone going to mention Jesus Christ Superstar?
There. I did. Now we can move on.
The newest reality show started last night. Cheapskate. If you didn't catch it you wouldn't believe it.I hope none of then make it to stardom.
Korthal there is a bank here in Utah that sponsors a web series where they challenge college students to compete to be the thriftiest/cheapest person in order to win a cash prize, it is entertaining.
http://www.cheapstertv.com/
I keep encouraging my niece to enter but she won't.
This is unrelated but I've heard 3 different people today say "Innernet" and 1 person saying "innardsnet". That annoys me to no end, chalk up a few more cases of the Utah missing "T" syndrome".
nachista - If we can digress to a more fun topic for a moment (you started it!)....Mispronunciations get on my nerves, too! Our town -village - is Waleska. It is pronounced just as it looks like it would be...however, the old timers in the local stores say, "Warlesky..." as if they have always called it that! Grrrrrr!
Macon, GA is often called "May-comb," and Cairo, GA is invariably "Kay -ro."
And we have a road that gets lots of traffic named Univeter (Une-uh-veter), but the newscaster this week could not get it out when a poultry worker there was killed when caught in the Seaboard poultry processing machinery. His version came out every time he told the story as, You-Niv-ater or several murderous variations! I feel sure we could all contribute some examples.
Then there is the tendency of my dear and treasured Southern friends to make several syllables of event he simplest words.... "Head" becomes "Hay-ed," etc.
Little Honey Boo Boo is my favorite star, she's right up there with Shirley Temple, what a talent, what a face, what the hell is she doing on television with that inbred family of hers? Unless it's supposed to be a "cautionary tale" as in this is what happens when sisters and brothers and first cousins breed. ... Has the median IQ of these United States fallen below the "barely functioning" level? I fear for my most when when I look at two things: the deficit - and that kid.
Correction: I fear most for my country when I look at two things: the deficit - and that kid.
In answer to Mr. P's question I have to reply that if it is a preconceived strategy iit seems to be the good old lowest common denominator. Sad. In this country we have no Minister of Culture and never is it more evident than when every single television channel goes to Reality Shows more and more. They do this because they can be produced for a fraction of any other kind of show and because we let them. Shame on us!
Park4: Agreed 100%
CHEFDEB: The only culture that most of the criminally stupid people in this Country have, is in a Petri Dish .......
I don't know how long the conditions has been, " known as Erotomania" ... but in the Stone Age of Law Enforcement [ and before Stalking was the hue and whine of Ex-Wives and Liberated individuals of questionable Gender ] the mind-set was called, MONOMANIA ... and every human being that has a pulse has experienced it ... How one acts and re-acts because of it will determine the severity of the condition, and help provide clues as to how far outside the realm of reason a person in the throes is apt to stray ... the Change must have occured sometime between the close of the 60's and the on-set of the 80's ... when Freud and Malthus were phasing out in a fog of Valium and Tuinal, and Messers Keynes and Jung were being blathered about the world of, "Beautiful People" ... It is rumored that, one day while drinking Vitalis on the Rocks, Robert Zimmerman had a daydream about a Song, that told of Krapotkin's actually being a defrocked Nun, and the mother of Truman Capote, as a result of being raped by a Tag-Team of Albanian Yak Milkers visiting in Minsk, looking for a Vaudeville Theatre where they were Opening the following Monday ... They were on the wrong Continent, owing to the fact that sobriety was never the long suit of their Ship's Captain, which aggravated his strabizmus not a little bit .......
I remember. I remember when the term 'celebrity' was a desrciption of someone of great accomplishment that has garnered mass appeal because of its impressiveness. Great performers, atheletes, authors and such who's deeds were the measure of their popularity/celebrety. Their private lives, especially their human foibles, kept in the shadows.
Now it seems that the inmates have taken over the nuthouse and the spotlight now shines on those, whom if they were relatives, neither side of the family would claim as being theirs. Now the celebrities consist of the failed careers of performers who suffer from substance abuse, violent outbursts, and other highly visable irrational behavior,....... Athletes who cheat........comedians who now believe they are the political compass of America, and the neighborhood wierdo who has the board of health visit their home on a weekly basis because they live in their version of the 'roach hotels' were things 'come in but never come out'.
I just don't get it. Has someone put LSD in the water supply? Is this a mild form of Mad Cow Disease? Or is it simply shining a spotlight on those way worse off than ourselves so we can feel better about ourselves..... 'l didn't do the dishes this week but at least I'm not a hoarder'.
Ye gods and little fishes........... What's the world coming to.
I think I'll take a walk in the park...
Be well, and don't let the turkeys get you down.
Well put Mr. PL. I recall my mother reading old "movie magazines." Names like - I can't remember any...Photoplay? might be one. She was really interested in "celebrities." And it wasn't the good that they did, or their acting abilities, it was the scandals. The biggest and best scandal I can remember her talking about with her friends was Debbie Reynolds-Eddie Fisher - Liz Taylor. Oh wow boy howdy that kept mouths going for a year, bad bad Liz stealing Debbie's man. I overheard a lot about that. Liz Taylor was just evil personified when it came to my mom - stole everybody's husbands, or killed off the others, or drove them to drink - and got lots of big jewelry for her bad behavior. I wondered what would ever happen if Liz Taylor really dropped dead like it was said she almost did, every other month -what would my mom and her friends talk about? Well, it didn't happen in my mom's lifetime, and anyway, then Marilyn Monroe died and a whole 'nother can of worms was opened. ............... I'm not big on celebrities at all. Except as I said a while ago, I was sad about the death of Paul Newman, and I don't know why, other than I really liked him as Ben Quick in The Long Hot Summer -- and just about everything else he was in....but that's about it. No People Magazine in this house - not even Vanity Fair...
BEBE: I READ YESTERDAY, AND CERTAINLY DO REMEMBER THAT BOY. I'M SO GLAD HE'S OKAY, AND THAT HE'S STILL GRINNING. IN NO SMALL PART TO YOU, MA'AM. YOU'RE THAT SPECIAL TEACHER HE'LL REMEMBER..... IT'S JUST A HEARTWARMING STORY, AND I WISH AND HOPE FOR HIM ALL GOOD THINGS...SOUNDS LIKE HE'S GOT THE RIGHT STUFF TO MAKE IT WORK.
The flow of today's posts reminiscent of my early days here at the village- erudite-urbane-like Lou Reed a walk on the wild side & yet tastes like fried chicken. As my buddy Kinky sez "You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.” I don't want anyone to think I'm special but I want them to say they'll never make another Tommy T~a Jack Daniel of all trades. Master of none. Man's gotta make his mark and mine can be found in a few hoosegows cause I was hardheaded.
After four readings, numerous
consultations with the Wizard of Google and a fair amount of head scratching, I
now completely understand what Ivan was telling us. I am certain
most of you got through it in one reading and have no further questions. I was
stymied mostly by the Albanian Yak milkers. I wasn't sure that Yaks were
native to Albania or Minsk. Then I discovered that the YAK is an aircraft
manufactured in Russia where petrol is rare, vodka is a libation and milk is
used to fuel automobiles and airplanes. Trains and boats in Russia are pulled
by teams of yoked oxen-like creatures called (isn't this a coincidence?) yaks.
How's that for erudite and urbane,
Mr Typical?
Very. Mssr p- & Tsar Ivan on a roll is top shelf and Top Gun. In high school in the early 70's a YAK was a gray sweatshirt with sleeves cut off. I had muskles (as Popeye would say) in dem daze. Spinach wuz served at LCHS in the cafeteria. I was thinking what did Steve Miller mean in The Joker-Cause' I speak of the pompetous of love?
I meant pompatus. Or pommpytuz. Or whatever Wolfman Jack says.
I wish I could help with that one T, but I try not to speak of things with which I have no intimacy. My mama always told me to stay away from those love pompatouses, she says they was the devil, the DEVIL.
ChefD, PL, Park -- You said it so well! Do you think the celeb magazines influence the thinking of a segment of Americans? Do you see a common denominator in this array?Those silly "reality shows" that are scripted, but low budget seem to supply visual fodder....Exactly what is undermining the nation's moral fiber>??....
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=celebrity+magazine+covers&qpvt=celebrity+magazine+covers&FORM=IGRE
Between the mags, dirty music, violent TV murder dramas, crash and kill movies (can you say "between all those? No, I think it must be "Among")....no wonder citizens are being brainwashed! Time to stand up and scream, "We're mad as hell and we're not going to take it anymore!" (Was that "Network"??)
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=im+mad+as+hell+and+im+not+taking+it+anymore&view=detail&mid=1537DFBD5E81A0FD3F1F1537DFBD5E81A0FD3F1F&first=0&qpvt=im+mad+as+hell+and+im+not+taking+it+anymore
"First you've got to get mad!" (Was that such a crazy idea??)
I think the Onion newspaper is a viable alternative. I don't have a problem with comics pontificating; it might just be an elagorite joke. "Here I come to save the daaaaaaaaay"> Andy Kaufman<....Parakeets all over the country enjoy each new issue of "You Need to Know" celebrity news
and George Carlin would get my vote for the hall of fame. I don't think there is a comic Saint
Ah Yes, ROADY ....... Leonard Hacker .......
The Babe Ruth of The Borscht Belt ....... Nuthin' but Hits, for forty years !!!
He play'd the Borscht Belt every year for two weeks, even after he got Famous and Rich, and didn't have to ....... "Ya gotta give sump thin back ..." he would say .......