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I don't think it's about "lookin up at somebody" like they're a star as much as it's about not wanting someone's silly pop culture garbage to ruin your impression of them. It's disheartening. I'm gone through this with rappers I like, and also with people I've known in real life: I thought they were pretty smart, together, and had their life-priorities in order...then I peak at their Twitter page and see them commenting about stupid, stupid $h!t. Not that I think no one should ever make silly little comments, or that it's a crime to tweet about whatever dumb celebrity mishap we're all supposed to care about this week...but dudes STAY in that zone ALL THE TIME. It's where their mental's at, when they DON'T happen to be in the booth making themselves out to be the most knowledgeable human since Jesus and Mohammad combined or whatever. (Jay Elec, I'm looking at you. I thought you were a HELL of a lot more knowledgeable than your Twitter reveals you to be. But I see now that you're just like a sophomore in college you wants people to THINK he's a lot smarter than he really is. Your twitter disappointed me more than any other. *snif*)
The other thing is, you guys do realize that these stars are STILL on another level from you, right? Stuff like twitter doesn't really make them any more "reachable". You think they actually check the comments they're sent? You think it means anything if they might send you a one-line response to something you tweet back at them or whatever? (That's been known to happen, right?) Well that's no different than writing a physical letter to a fanclub address, and getting a little thank-you note in response. Stars and celebrities are still about as unreachable as ever--they live vastly different sorts of lives than any of us do, they have people gassing them up all day long and they never feel inclined to worry about money. The only difference is that now we can see how damn stupid most of them are, thanks to stuff like Twitter. When they didn't put out much personal information about themselves, okay then we could at least HOPE that most of them were really interesting people who were always working on their art or whatever. But now the situation just adds insult to injury: Yeah, they're still separated from the rest of us "little people", only now we can see beyond a doubt that most of them are actually very foolish people.
I had a Twitter account for about two days, then I had to end that. There's something wrong with someone--famous or not--who wants to keep putting out personal little notes, every hour or so of every damn day, to everyone they know. It's like people want to make sure you have an ongoing public record of their life or something. Every time they have a somewhat clever thought, they think "Should this one go up on Twitter, so it can be preserved for posterity?" That's a bad evaluation process to have running through your head constantly. If you're constantly doing that narcissistic stuff, thinking about doing that stuff, then by definition you just aren't a very serious person and the view you have of the world is not a very wise one, no matter how righteous you may act in your other conversations (or in your songs, writings etc). That's like the same hypocrisy as the preacher who says stark truths to his flock and tells them not to sin...then in his off hours he's sinning worse than anyone. Or it's like someone who bemoans pop culture and the lack of education in kids these days...but he himself watches a bunch of reality show junk, "but just to laugh at it". Nah, you gotta have a more united front, resisting the indisputable nonsense in this world, if you want to take a stand that really means anything. You might fool other people into thinking you're a really smart critic of society, but you're really just lying to yourself if on the low you're still inviting some of society's nonsense into your life and indulging in it.
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