The best book ever written on the theory of power elite is C. Wright Mills' 1956 book, The Power Elite. Back then, he even understood the rise of the celebrity that is known for nothing other than clebrity, e.g, the Kardashians.
From the book:
As a business, the networks of mass communication, publicity and entertainment are not only the means whereby celebrities are celebrated; they also select and create celebrities for profit...
Often they seem to have celebrity and nothing else, Rather than being celebrated because they occupy positions of prestige, they occupy positions of prestige because they are celebrated. The basis of celebration--in a strange and intricate way--is at once personal and synthetic: it is their Talent--which seems to mean their appearance value and their skill combined into what is known as A Personality...they seem to live a sort of gay, high life, and others, by curiously watching them live it, celebrate them as well as their celebrated life.
--RW
"Hitler was the first rock star." - David Bowie
ReplyDeleteWell, I can't match that Bowie quote. Yikes! But I bet ol' C.Wright was thinking of the Gabors.
ReplyDeleteI just don't get it. What is it about this slut that people find so appealing that it made her very rich? I have a better idea. READ! Read, study, be productive for fucks sake! Make the world a better place. Stop making losers like this chick rich you idiots.
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