Must We Always Have Paris?

Not often do I find a “personality” so vulgar that it deserves mentioning, but there’s something about a current celebrity I simply need to rant about.

Paris Hilton is quite certainly the worst icon to represent American popular culture in history. Those who believe Paris is a role-model, diva, star, or otherwise humane need to look up the term persona non grata.

This is a young girl who needs little in the way of money because of her family’s unbelievable wealth, yet our youth spend money due to her appearances in ad campaigns for which she is grossly compensated. Paris is paid seven-number salaries to attend events across the globe yet hands little of that over to charity (Some time and money has gone from Miss Hilton to Toys for Tots, but the exact amount of both is certainly negligible compared to her considerable wealth.)

She is a person to be despised, but because we allow her to exist in the public eye we have only ourselves to blame. It is the attention she craves and that is what we fed to her in shovel-full loads each time we discuss her life, testify to her “one-line statements”, or consider her in any regard.

I often wonder about the priorities of people, myself especially so. Though we all have family, friends and other such considerations we value much higher than our personal desires, living them vicariously through others can only go so far. Whom we chose to live them through is better considered through our needs, not by the amount of desire the icon wishes us to attend.