Idiot of the moment

Why Celebrities...

I get the escapist nature of entertainment. I love movies, TV and books. I’m not a snob either, I don’t insist that PBS is the only channel to watch. I love bad movies and TV as much as the good stuff (as judged by ratings and or critics). I can even understand the need to live vicariously through the lives of celebrities as they jet set around the globe and hobnob with the beautiful people.

What I don’t understand is why we care what they say. I like actors and actresses because they do their job well, they spin characters from a printed page and make me believe in the story. They entertain me. Why then do we care that Tom Cruise is an idiot when it comes to Psychiatry? Yes it has risks all of medicine does (why do you think it’s called a practice instead of a perfect?). There are also risks to the pseudo claptrap that scientology spits out (lay on a clay table while someone fiddles with an e-meter for 500 bucks an hour and see how much better you feel). Personally I would tend towards psychiatry for a couple of reasons. The first reason is there have been many studies conducted in the field of psychiatry, how many have been conducted on scientology (if it’s an ology shouldn’t there be peer reviewed studies published) (a double aside: would the study of scientology be called scientologyology)? Two, it’s not being whored around by pretty boys in the press circuit.

posted by KingoftheIdiots @ 7:54 AM