Why people crave Lady Gaga
Third in a four part post on Tim Keller's book King's Cross:
"Christina Kelly was a successful editor of young women's magazines; over a period of several years she was on staff of Elle Girl, YM, Jane, and Sassy. Some years back she wrote a confessional piece in which she asked: Why do we crave celebrities? 'Here's my theory. to be human is to feel inconsequential. So we worship celebrities and we seek to look like them. All the great things they have done we identify with in order to escape our own inconsequential lives. But is's so dumb. With this stream of perfectly airbrushed, implanted, liposuctioned stars, you would have to be an absolute powerhouse of self-esteem already not feel totally inferior before them. So we worship them because we feel inconsequential, but doing it makes us feel even worse. We make them stars, but then their fame makes us feel insignificant. I am a part of the whole process as an editor. No wonder I feel soiled at the end of the day.'
But Christina Kelly says the celebrities themselves are incredibly unsuccessful in dealing with their sense of inconsequentiality through their beauty, while the rest of us feel worse because we can't even come close to them."
Just a vicious cycle of one person living off another's needs and wants. Both unable to fulfill each other. At the end of the day significance can only come from no one but God. We will only feel valuable to the degree that we understand that God who is supremely the most valuable so valued us that He gave us what most valuable to Him - Jesus.
Lord, teach me to always see my value from understanding how valuable You are. That my value comes as I realize that You so valued me You allowed Jesus to die for me. Its the only real way for me not be deceived.
"Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!" Luke 12:24
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