The Cult of Contemporary Celebrity

Celebrities: (noun) celebrities. It is famous and very famous. There is no doubt that there are local celebrities in all the hunter gatherers' tribes, including women who have babies, boy survived swallowing a porcupine, and men fighting Tyrannosaurus. Well, he may die, but the status of celebrities will be sentenced to death after death. But if the person fighting Tyrannosaurus is a modern Hollywood celebrity, he not only survives but he earns 20 million dollars for his efforts and wins praise from billions of people Let's see.

By focusing on the relationship between cult fans and cult's television celebrities, I would like to (and challenge) structured star / celebrity assumptions. Even if celebrities / celebrities and fans are analyzed via specific sociological factors (stars and their female fans, or national stars and fans), certain celebrities / celebrities often are culturally universal It is regarded as a kind. Therefore, stars / celebrities are thought to be mass-brokered and shared currencies in contemporary consumer culture. As S. Paige Baty wrote:

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The cult comes from Latin culture, which means "care". Early cults literally took care of the needs of local gods, usually by sacrificing to God's totem. Our contemporary cults appeared in the 1960's, but there was evidence that the primitive concern continued as a pseudo-religious activity ten years ago. The difference between modern cults and ancient cults is that we do not care for local (or international) non-material gods. Instead, taking care of a person - usually a charismatic cult leader - must accept respect for his followers, physical and sexual support. The ancients prepared a food basket for the gods. Modern people began to engage in sales activities to remit wages to new local gods. There is no statue in this local god. He is a man, he needs a man.

For those dressed in Western traditions, modern cults have familiar elements. As mainstream society claims, relief will be achieved through scientific knowledge and human progress. This explains why contemporary cults are often fascinated by pseudo psychology as counterpart of exotic technology. The new psychology promised by the cult provides the foundation for the social progress expected by the Western social organization. This is because the cult inventor can not exceed the growth of materialism, anti-metaphysics, anti-transcendental civilization. Modern people (or postmodern if we have one) can easily adopt the idea of ​​those who are sincerely approaching the sacred place of Horley, humility of awe, or literally the resurrection of Jesus can not.