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you know the study of fame and pop culture is my main inspiration for my documentaries
fame is not just an experience but an institution a projected microcosm of a very real society
the wants and desires of people are the same inside or outside the velvet rope psychologically
speaking what attracts people to fame i'm curious as ever and i approach the concept of startup from
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psychology of fame and from my understanding the psychoanalysis of a person who is not submitting
to being psychoanalyzed is hard but not impossible there have been few people who have actually been
spoken to you by psychologists and they are kept of course anonymous additionally the long-standing
culture of the recyclable nature of celebrity and how delusional it would be to think you could be
in that position tomorrow is not the only common thread that links those who want to be famous
it's how the ease of access of fame has made more people believe that it is absolutely attainable
and a completely normal and realistic goal to have in life the author of fame junkies
jake halpern conducted a study in 2007 with syracuse university's new house school of
public communications where 653 new york kids from 5th through 8th grade were asked to choose
between intelligence strength more beauty or fame girls chose fame more often and boys chose fame
almost as often as intelligence so not only is the allure of fame more widespread than ever the
psychological aspects can actually be likened to the state of being an addict according to
psychiatrist reef kareem he has treated several people that don't realize they are not famous
anymore and are simply addicted to the void that fame fills in their lives kareem implies the names
are big names of has-beens and my pop culture savvy mind can't help but fantasize about just
who's been crying on his couch about their stale act not selling anymore
paris hilton was the first the original celebrities practically the inventor
of that thoroughly modern phenomenon being famous for being famous now though this particular
marketplace has become rather crowded with people like hilton's former protege and sometimes
frenemy kim kardashian eating up a lot of the oxygen try bringing any of this up with hilton
however and things get a little tense do you ever worry about your moment having passed
you want to wrap up
but karim's treatment of his famous patients makes sense imagine being a one-hit wonder in
the royalties in a song you wrote were enough to give you a continuous six or seven figure payout
each year the challenge of keeping your name on the charts and the social impact of being in such
a rare position is something too big to give up even actors on small budget tv shows are making
about a hundred thousand dollars an episode to start they may last for one or two seasons of
a production that might be cancelled and are still becoming millionaires from it a smart
person would grab the cash and go live frugally and enjoy life no not a person who wants fame
they need to fill that void with anything else but an easy life they bathe in the spotlight yet their
souls never truly come clean in the process at the end of the day it's not money most people want
it's the thunderous roar of applause prestigious awards and worldwide recognition people desire
a business-minded person like myself would gladly settle for being a rich financially
free has-been we see how tragic and embarrassing it is when people don't want to give up fame
and by extension youth a name came to mind didn't it that void is endless although the
sources listed from psychology today medical blog site are plentiful the empirical data on
fame addiction is not because it is such a unique experience that only calls for introspection when
it's time to show the person behind the art which in and of itself is its own art
form
fame however is not a post-modern invention as it pertains to this channel's interest in pop culture
there have always been alex under the greats julius caesars and napoleon's
grand personalities that wanted to be known around the world for their dominance
and rule the world with such influence to go down in history forever and here we are centuries later
speaking breath into their legacies but we count that as history don't we pop culture
can certainly make history but history doesn't need pop culture to exist to document its accounts
if paparazzi could stalk ancient historical figures with the barrage of flashes and record
their every move would they have relinquished any semblance of doubt and their standing as
celebrities this is a timeless issue just extended by our access to the famous but that relationship
with their narcissistic lusts is as archaic as history itself stars don't want to come clean
about their respective relevance to modern day pop culture they come with an expiration date have you
ever sought out spoiled milk the glass bottles of the 50s when doorstep milk deliveries were more
prominent are nostalgic but no one would ever want the contents of the glasses because of age
that is the truth about celebrities they are pretty pictures from the past
who all peak at one point or another they think they are a timeless fermented delicacy
when really they are pasteurized on a farm only to be replaced by someone else they're
not always the fine wine they think they are speaking of historical foresight i hope to have
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thank you universers i appreciate your support now let's continue other studies depict that
the acceptance of fame comes in stages the 2009 paper being a celebrity the phenomenology of fame
for the journal phenomenological psychology studied 15 adults ranging from ages 35 to 86 the
study conducted by donna rockwell of the michigan school of professional psychology and david c
giles of the university of winchester interviewed relatively well known celebrities anonymously
the professions of these celebrities ranged from a television star a tv news personality a state
governor a hollywood actor a tv sportscaster nhl hockey and nba athletes a celebrity lawyer
a former r b star and former child star based on the interviews rockwell and giles identified four
phases the newly famous pass through as they come to grips with their celebrity status the first
being love hate quote at first the experience of becoming famous provides much ego stroking
newly famous people find themselves warmly embraced there's a guilty pleasure associated with
the thrill of being admired and that participants both love the attention and adoration while they
question the gratification they experience from fame i enjoy parts of it but i hate parts of it
too was a generally reported theme donna rockwell and david c giles the second stage is addiction
the lure of adoration is attractive and it becomes difficult for the person to imagine living without
fame one participant said it is somewhat of a high and another i kind of get off on it
one said i've been addicted to almost every substance known to man at one point or another and
the most addicting of all of them is fame rockwell and giles the third stage is acceptance as the
attention becomes overwhelming and expectations temptations mistrust and familial concerns come to
the fore the celebrity resolves to accept fame including its threatening phenomenal aspects
you learn to accept it once liberty said after a while celebrities report that they come to see
that fame is just so much of the will of the wisp and you just can't build a house on that
kind of stuff rockwell and giles the fourth stage is adaptation only after accepting that it comes
with the territory can the celebrity adaptively navigate famous choppy waters once you're famous
a participant said you don't make eye contact or you keep walking and you just don't hear people
calling your name adaptive patterns can include reclusiveness which gives rise in turn to mistrust
and isolation rockwell and giles your ability to dance your ability to sing spectacularly
and yet you often seem very lonely even though you're so talented is that true um it's better
than it used to be i used to sit in my hotel room just cry just by myself because you can't get out
there's fans everywhere and helicopters and press following them now that i've had my children
it's helped a lot then after that several new stages arise once a person has accepted fame
into their lives first they experience a loss of self from an initial desire to become successful
the celebrity experiences personal confusion and the loss of ownership of life into personalizing
anticipation process in which participants reported feeling like a thing rather than a
person of unique character all the while hearing one's name screamed out the famous person feels
as if he or she is not even there the celebrity suffers a loss of personal freedom and relation
to the world and develops a heightened capacity to scan his or her environment and a state of alerted
attention in order to assess the possibilities of advance or the need to retreat rockwell and giles
the next phase is mistrust eventually the very others who adore the celebrity evoke mistrust
there is always a part of you that wonders why they are becoming friendly with you in an everyday
environment the celebrity wonders do people like me because of who i am or because of what i do
you find out there are millions of people who like you for what you do
they couldn't care less about who you are rockwell and giles finally comes the arrogance we see that
is so prevalent among hollywood a-listers the celebrity copes with intense public scrutiny
through character splitting he or she divides into two identities by contriving a celebrity entity
a new self-presentation in the public sphere the only way i think you can really handle it
is to say that's not really me it's this working part of me or the celebrity part of me living up
to others expectations becomes a vicious cycle in which the celebrity like a hamster on a will
works to satisfy a hungry and demanding public the famous person feels the need to always be on
there's an obligation to be nice to everyone and that becomes exhausting rockwell and giles
now what about us how are we affected by the construct of fame besides thinking we can have it
what are the psychological effects of being the fuel to the fire of addiction of fame
by showing up to engage in celebrity culture in the form of our own addiction
the world to be famous is something definitely worth psychoanalyzing further
but celebrity worship syndrome is a classified mental illness all its own
see you my next documentary let's see which one of us needs a shrink and how deep and dire
our own obsession with pop culture really is doc you subscribe to join the universe