Writer's Block: The Right to Privacy
Aug. 16th, 2009 04:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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Since you asked, I'll tell you. I think all parts of celebrities' lives should be off-limits to the public, except the parts they choose to share. The proliferation of gossip rags - all fueled by the willingess of soulless paparazzi and reporters to invade the privacy of the glitterati, not to mention the fact that the voyeurism-crazed public buys demands it - publications such as the Enquirer and its imitators, as well as the glossy versions like "Us", "People", and on ad nauseam, are to me abomination and anathema.
People would do much better to focus on maximizing the potential of their own lives rather than live vicariously through the sensationalized peccadilloes of those who entertain us. And while we're on the subject, let's deep-six magazines like "Cosmo" and "Esquire", which cause nothing but anguish in the minds of those who compare themselves to the miraculous albeit photoshopped bodies and fictionalized sexual exploits paraded within. This stuff is legalized pornography, nothing more.
The Old Wolf has spoken.
Since you asked, I'll tell you. I think all parts of celebrities' lives should be off-limits to the public, except the parts they choose to share. The proliferation of gossip rags - all fueled by the willingess of soulless paparazzi and reporters to invade the privacy of the glitterati, not to mention the fact that the voyeurism-crazed public buys demands it - publications such as the Enquirer and its imitators, as well as the glossy versions like "Us", "People", and on ad nauseam, are to me abomination and anathema.
People would do much better to focus on maximizing the potential of their own lives rather than live vicariously through the sensationalized peccadilloes of those who entertain us. And while we're on the subject, let's deep-six magazines like "Cosmo" and "Esquire", which cause nothing but anguish in the minds of those who compare themselves to the miraculous albeit photoshopped bodies and fictionalized sexual exploits paraded within. This stuff is legalized pornography, nothing more.
The Old Wolf has spoken.
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Date: 2009-08-17 06:55 am (UTC)Still cracks me up, you guys have drive through banks, wedding chapels, fast food outlets and so on, but we have drive through bottle-shops haha