Tiffany FitzHenry – If you were paying attention, and if you were able to be honest with yourself, you noticed something very interesting happen during the 2016 election.
Celebrities became totally irrelevant.
Right before our eyes, these once walking, talking, receptacles of global influence became a silly, powerless, feckless, impotent, frustrated, angry, little, mob. And we had a front row seat to all of it. We watched, in real-time, as their worst nightmare came true; we completely stopped caring about them. And our ambivalence is clearly their kryptonite.
If you recall Sally Field’s painfully pathetic Oscar’s speech from decades ago, when she gushed like a preschooler on the playground, “You like me, you really like me,” it’s pretty obvious this narcissistic insecurity is their driving force—us caring about and idolizing them. But now we know too much. We know how the prison pyramid works. We know they’ve done dark things to get where they are. We know that ‘us listening to them’ is not only their deepest desire, it is the purpose for which they were created and why they are allowed to exist. Their influence is the currency on which they survive. And, as of this writing, their influence has officially flat-lined.