People who are famous because they comment on famous people freak me out.

[insanity]

Actually, the amount of speculation about famous people and our culture's perverse interest in celebrity freak me out.

[cwydro]

1. I have never figured out why

Paris Hilton is famous??

[dana_b]

3. and that other Paris - the guy

what talent does this person possess?

[insanity]

6. I've often wondered who the hell he was

He sure as hell annoys me.

[DarkTirade]

2. I never got the obsession with celebrity, even when I was little.

I remember one stupid 'personality test' I had to take as a kid, and one of the questions was, "Do you want to be rich and famous?" My answer was "Hell no. Rich, sure. Well known within a circle of people who are interested in something I do well, sure. Famous? No. I don't want that kind of constant scrutiny."

But I couldn't put that whole answer. It was just a yes or no question. And if you answer 'no', somehow that means that you lack ambition. :\

Stupid standardized tests.

[Auggie]

4. Culture's perverse interest in celebrity is what got us so screwed up

[insanity]

5. The Donald comes to mind

A man symbolic of the disease.

[Auggie]

7. Perfect -- boggles the mind to think of the media time wasted on him

[skygazer]

8. Yeah, the people who are famous for being famous

What circular logic that is.

And the idea that famous people are somehow different from other people - like being near them will embody you with some sort of special mojo. Very strange. Kind of creepy. But then, the human race has many strange quirks.