Enough fame


Do you think you want to be famous?
Perhaps famous enough to propel your message, be heard even if you have no desire to be seen.
But famous?
Do you want people watching your every move, waiting on your every gesture, interpreting your every comment?
Is what you have to say really that valuable?
Are you really the best person to be saying it?

Why is your opinion of any notable value?
Maybe you used to play professional football?
But then maybe you're talking about football.
Or you used to be on a soap opera? And you are used to putting the world to rights.

And when I talk about notable value, I will celebrate your independence with you but of course I really mean using influence over millions of followers.
What is democratic about that sort of control? Or perhaps you think that's exactly what democracy is.
In which case.
Bless.

No, fame as a means to an end. OK. Enough is needed. Yet that's the one thing that those it is given to often know the least about.
To sell your music. To promote your writing. To raise money for charity. Okay, I get that.
But as an end in itself. Most definitely not.

There is no entry fee to being a politician.

Although she had been in the soap opera that is considered a distinct advantage nowadays .
And if you can act despite that, all the better.
Find a certain type of people . Set your loyalties to a party you think is most likely to take you on. Don't worry about changing if you need to sacrifice a Party line the size of a Domesday book. You can always swallow another one whole.
Simply walk across to the other side of the chamber. Simply betray everybody voted for you.
Easy.

Yes, perhaps these people should be well known.
So we can see them coming.
Call them out
Wave them off.

Katie Price was on the television yesterday. Someone who has courted fame in every possible way. Not for contribution to society, but to collect money.
She talks of becoming a paramedic or training as a nurse.
So she can help people?
I'm sceptical.
So she can get a TV crew to follow to give her another story to tell.
I don't dislike Katie Price.
But fame. At any cost.
No.
I don't think so.