I do not consider them any different than normal people. It's not an opinion created out of jealousy, anti-interest, or anything remotely connected to the statu

I do not consider them any different than normal people. It's not an opinion created out of jealousy, anti-interest, or anything remotely connected to the status they are given by pop-culture. I don't know if it is part of my philosophy of how I imagine most people live their lives in the 'information age' where it is as easy to voyeur into a normal person's life as it is a celebrities. I think that composes part of it. But largely, they don't have actual value to me by virtue of the frequency of which their name appears in print alone. They do the same thing that any other person would do. They live, breathe, eat, sleep, socially engage, connect, disconnect, and do a job. People don't often realize how much influence their environment has on them, their paths in life, their sense of self, their self direction, their opinions, thoughts and ideas. The people I consider valuable are the ones that consistently strive to exceed the boundaries imposed on them by the limitations of contemporary culture. The people I consider valuable don't look at their past as a legacy or an attachment for which to cling to in order to maintain status, but they look at the present as if they are continuously starting at the beginning. I try to live that way, because I find that keeps me humble, receptive to learning, and always questioning the things I think I know or understand. The introductory story sounds like something that would either make me fall asleep or hide in a corner due to social anxiety. I'd much rather being hacking away at a computer, or having interesting conversations, than having a 'party' and swapping out all the people I love in my life for brand names that represent weird composites of PR engineered "people". These are people in real life, but the media distortion is an image. The image is different than the person. I don't know them as a person and I can't know the person through the image. So why care? That image shares more similarity with 1,000 anonymous comments on a forum than it does with a real person. It's an artificial construct.