This makes no sense to us as we worry about
our jobs and make sure we have enough money for our groceries and drive for
cheaper gas. They have everything. They
have fame. They have money. Yet we see in the news time and again the tragic
story of another star who has died. The question remains from Marilyn Monroe to
Phillip Seymour Hoffman: why do people who have everything the world can give
find the urge to destroy themselves?
Our entire
culture is geared toward this ultimate prize. Our reality shows tantalize us
with the one in a million chance to become rich and famous. Sadly most do not.
But a few do go on to touch the gold and then fall into obscurity. And then the
chosen ones who make it enter the fabled kingdom and it seems it is not long
before we are hearing stories of stints in rehab, personal life catastrophes,
and then the final denouement…they are dead.
What is the
lottery but a one in a million chance to at least be rich if not famous? This
mega lottery if you will stands on the top of our age of Celebradom as Mecca.
And we stare in wonder as we see our modern Gods on television and the movies
and many go on and do lead lives that do no end up in the tabloids. But they do
seem like the few. Our megastars more than not end up as legends through death.
James Dean. Marilyn. Jim Morrison.
It is
as if this is the final step in their career.
