The Age of Celebrity Worship

Celebrities are everywhere we look. They line the lines at the grocery store, they're the first thing we see when we get on the internet, and they're on almost every channel we flip through on the TV.

It seems it's only natural that we would develop some sort of fascination with their lives when they infiltrate every part of ours. Celebrity worship isn't a new thing; it's actually been around for a very long time.

As Christine Lagorio suggests in her article "A New Age of Celebrity Worship", it's only natural for us to want to know about these people we see all the time.

For decades tabloids have been keeping track of the lives of celebrities. Modern technologies today make it so much easier for us to follow the daily lives of our favorite celebrities. At any moment we can check any given celebrity's thoughts on twitter or see where they went yesterday in the latest issue of People or US Weekly. There are countless gossip websites where we can get the latest updates on any celebrity couple's make-up or break-up.

All the technologies available to us make it easier to keep up with all the celebrities out there, but they also fuel our obsessions with them.  Our access to technology allows us to find out any information we want whenever we want, essentially feeding our addiction to celebrities.

This addiction our society has to the lives of celebrities has caused us to create celebrities where there originally were none. Now, any contestant on any given reality TV show instantly becomes a celebrity, automatically demanding our adoration and attention. Even on a local scale we've come to obsess over the lives of the rich in our neck of the woods for the sole reason that they have more money than us.

I think our obsessions not only stems from our need to know information about other people but also from our desire to connect with people who live lives we don't. By tracking the lives of celebrities we are able to live out our fantasies through them.

Some may call this unhealthy, and it can be if you allow it to take over your life. But I say the lives of celebrities are simply fascinating, and there's nothing wrong with being fascinated!