nouveau riche white blonde famous young people are supposed to have perfect lives, especially as they appear on the surface, if not deep down. she does not have a perfect surface life. and though not relevant to all, is also not perfect deep down.
nouveau riche white blonde famous young people are supposed to create envy and desire and drive self-hatred based economy. she is only driving paparazzi economy (which includes cnn).
mass cultural anxiety about britney spears is easier for individuals to write off as silly than mass cultural anxiety about war, health care, the economy, etc. which people are more likely to avoid feeling in the first place because that type of anxiety cannot be written off except by the most self-deluded.
maybe she sells less records because everyone sells less records because of piracy but it's easier to have mass cultural anxiety about britney spears than to have mass cultural anxiety about destruction of intellectual property rights.
britney spears creates mass cultural anxiety because it seems as if britney spears creates mass cultural anxiety whereas in reality mass cultural anxiety exists independently of britney but without britney what it may attach itself to is harder to digest than britney and by digest i mean destroy and make room for another britney. which is why after we pay attention to massive horrifying global and national issues, it takes britney to wash it down.
the only thing that will stop this cycle is making genuine progress on issues of most importance. hope and progress. then britney can go back to just being britney and not be so tangled up in our collective need to escape the world. then britney can go back to just being britney and not be so tangled up in our collective need to believe perfection is even possible and that happiness eludes all but the nouveau riche white blonde famous young people among us. i don't need to believe. i don't believe. i don't need to escape. i don't escape.
p.s. in case you're wondering, i'm busy getting my ph.d. in britneyology. i already have my masters in joan collins engineering.
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