Consume

In the past few days I had that feeling again, where I seem to be a consumer machine. I don’t like it, but it creeps up on me until I recognise it again. Then I change my attitude and slow down, but I know in a while I will want again.

Marginalising Men

Increasingly in UK advertising, men are depicted as feckless and infantile. This has been the case for some years, as men play the fool to the women. Recently I have come across a few adverts that extend that subjugation, placing the children ahead of their father. Only the family pet remains to supersede the men, and they are often on par with men.
Perhaps this is only permissible because men are so confident in their status. Perhaps it is an over compensation in the movement to promote the cause of those perceived to be marginalised in the past. Unfortunately, whatever the reason, men are marginalised in this trend and consequently offer negative role models to boys. If our boys continue to be immature into adulthood, are these role models partly to blame?

Why Celebrity?

Many celebrities are not particularly unusual, nor have they done something excellent or noteworthy, so why are people interested in them? It would seem to be just because they are widely known. If that is true, why is it so interesting to people that someone is widely known?

Why for example is Paris Hilton interesting to many people? She garners a lot of interest for nothing exceptional, other than apparently being wealthy by someone else’s industry and antics which could broadly be summarised as childish or at best immature.