Living or Pancakes?

So I watched the video today of Adam Lambert at the American Music Awards and the now famous kiss.  I think the situation is a little confusing when it happened at the time, because the gothic dress and hair styles may have had people thinking that the keyboardist was actually a female and heterosexual lip-locking is not that frightening on national primetime television.

So the initial reaction by the crowd was ambivalent seeing as it looked like the person Lambert kissed could have been a woman.  After the event, the clear understanding was brought out through off stage interviews and a line up of ‘journalists’ clamoring to hear what Lambert had to say about the situation.  It is cunning and a little concerning that we are so obsessed with the cultural paradigms that we are frothing to get someone on our television show who is doing a stunt just to get on our television shows.  This repetitive cycle of celebrity is getting rather old.

It troubles me that my son’s culture will consist of ‘famous’ people who are one-in-the-same people with NO ACCOMPLISHMENTS.  Gone are the days of astronauts, scientists, preachers, generals, and politicians – now it is the celebritocracy .  These ruling class individuals who run in the circles as the news journalists who promote one another’s livelihoods.  The actors/recording artist does something silly, the journalist has the ratings from reporting it, and the entertainer gets another big movie deal or concert tour, because ‘They’re hot and in the news’ – but they are in the news, because they are in the news.  This cyclical maniacal silliness must end – THESE PEOPLE ARE ENTERTAINERS, and not very good ones.

Why are the people on the cover of magazines ? 9 out of 10 times, because of a controversy not accomplishment.  Pray for these people and don’t be held captive by their whims or their antics.  They, like us, will fade and vanish.  Vapor of vapors says Qoheleth, all is vapor.