DEAR EDITOR: This was inspired by the article about Heidegger on Celebrity in Philosophy Now Issue 125:
Look at me! I’m on TV, Plain to view, for all to see.What you get is what you want.Paint by numbers, fill the gaps.Go to worship on an app.Buttons pushed. Adulation. Endorphin rush.Discernment, logic, truth, good taste; All crushed.Suspended critique floats in the air, Out the window, down the stairs.
Insect queen she draws you in.Pheremone mediated, anything goes, Nothing’s a sin.Adored and adoring manacled, shackled.It’s the tally that counts, as the game becomes tactical.Numbers, degrees of being, equate to fame.Clicks, likes, tweets, Magazines, booked seats.It’s all the same.While the river of fame and celebrity gently seepsInto a God-shaped empty hollow within.Media fans the flames of fame, Dispensing glowing cinders of contagious fallacy.The…