Every night she posts a new video of her singing onto her myspace page. To her, fame is everything. “Now days, being anonymous is worse than being poor. Fame is the most important thing in our culture now.” Rachael sums up the attitude of our culture so well. Everyone wants to be famous. It doesn’t matter what for. And with youtube and facebook and twitter and everything else, it’s easier and easier to achieve that. But is that where we find fulfillment?
How is it that we can only look at this quote and think about the new found prevalence of being know. We have always wanted to be know incidentally and there have been many movies about how bad it is to be anonymous. But it is almost like saying that we would like to go back to the "good old days" when poor people were the lowest rung in our society.
The life boat now kicks out a new person, the anonymous surely in addition to the poor. The humble and those who do not self promote get left behind. We've got to have the most comments on our facebook updates, the most views or at least the right views on our youtube videos. Texts in the right amount.
And now that things are all out there we can see everything that we were not at or invited to. O, three of my friends just had "the best night with their best friends". Awesome for you. Not. Sucks for me. It makes us feel "out". What does it mean to be in? Accepted? To belong?
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