Toned Jefferson
Is This Really What American Culture Is All About
It was the vision of de Tocqueville and Jefferson, expanded by Thoreau and Emerson. Somehow it all got morphed into a pursuit of possessions – cars, houses, yachts. But now it has morphed – mutated – into something beyond the tragic. The American Dream is now about becoming a celebrity.
For some reason, American culture is becoming one where celebrities set the tone. And how does one turn into a celebrity? By engaging in evermore outrageous behavior. Kiss an additional girl. Drive drunk. Drive drunk with a baby. On your lap, right at the wheel.
The list goes on and on. The sex tape is becoming a veritable rite of passage, the demarcation line between true celebs and wannabe posers. And it’s not all just harmless fun. For one factor, it has a morally corrupting effect on the character of both our young and our old alike. Moreover, the pursuit of celebrity gives each and every mentally unbalanced individual (the seriously, clinically unbalanced, which is – it’s arguable that caring about celebrity is really a sign of mental unbalance to begin with) the drive and wherewithal to purchase assault rifles and pistols and shoot up schools, churches, offices, malls, hospitals, and other public places.
And it all has to do with celebrity, fame, the desire to “be somebody.” As crazy as it may possibly sound, a lot of men and women really feel that the only way of being somebody is to become popular, being known – after all, does a tree exist if it falls within the forest but no one is around to hear it fall?
To paraphrase that dandy Oscar Wilde – a celebrity and provocateur in his own time – the only thing worse than bad publicity is no publicity. Thus celebrity culture encourages the worst, due to the fact the very best among us are discovering new things, building new things, and helping society. But the American Dream is becoming about becoming popular. It’s no longer about being free.
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Tone Poem No. 1 in D-flat Major -David Jefferson
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