The
Cult Of Personality and Modern Day Idol Worship.
What Does Lady Gaga, Obama, Trump, Beyoncé, LeBron James and Jay-Z Have in Common?
Humanity in the
modern age, treat celebrities like their predecessors of the old days treated
their gods. It seems that human beings have to have something to idolize, look
up to, admire, wish to be like or live their lives for.
Celebrities are the new age obsession of
modern man, who once built altars and brought offerings to their gods, the
modern day devotee (fan) now does the same, purchasing their pictures, videos,
music in a frenzied state of wanting to be next to them, if only through a
conduit.
The Modern day
Priest is the peddler of these New Age Celebrities Gods. They
pose as media
moguls, press agents, producers and distributors of the mania that consumes the
fans. These modern day idolaters scream, dance, sweat and cry over the
"gods" they chose and keep their gods amply supplied with all the
modern conveniences, and sometimes so modern, their "gods" can live
in full furnished multi-million dollar homes.
Like any religion,
the worshipers keep the Gods and their Mediators in power as the devotee
depletes his resources just for one more favor or act of kindness towards them.
These acts of kindness maybe inclusive of but not exclusive of, autographs,
pictures, handshakes, special tokens and VIP seating at a gala affair.
Some devotees become
so obsessed they will kill for their god, or kill their god itself, destroying
its life, history and perchance its effect on any other devotee other than
they.
Perhaps this it is a
displace madness, an obsession generated by the total lack of self ownership
and self power. Perhaps the Celebrities while only temporary give the devotee
the moment in time where they can feel overwhelmingly powerful and completely divorced
from their miserable lives or completely disconnected from the miserable lives
their very Gods live.
It is part of the
social construct. Children see parents as gods, infallible and invincible, and as adults this lifelike onus is given to the Celebrity of their own choosing. In the realm of Celebrity worship, there are no boundaries as anything that would prove disconcerting to another can be hidden in the privacy of the devotees home, away from the scrutiny of any onlooker.
Devotees can get
into fierce verbal battles with other devotees of other Gods, and like the
Gladiators of old, can fight to the teeth about their particular god and its
"well deserved" greatness and power.
The question to me
becomes, what is missing from the human psyche that such props are needed? How
has humanity come to this? And what is missing inside of the human being that
this type of attribution of power is needed to be given to an "Idol"
or object of their devotion. How is it that the social construct supports and
promotes this type of mania?
I would suggest,
that it is part of the overall Social Engineering of the masses to seek help,
guidance and support outside of themselves instead of being sovereign and
responsible from within themselves. I would suggest that for the many many
thousands of years that humanity has inhabited this planet, there is something
missing, something so intangible that it created a void that needed to be
filled.
The Ancient Gods
seemed to have left its creation behind, to squander and wallow
in the abyss, a
fog, the unknown and sometimes predatory environment called Planet Earth. In
man's quest to find security, he re-invented gods, the gods he barely
remembered, who seem to be there to take care of him. After reinventing these
Gods, certain men became empowered by their connection to these gods,
relegating the rest of the masses to the position of devotee. He set up
positions of governance over these devotees, promising to bring the messages of
the gods back to them, pure and direct.
He selected special devotees who would have just a little bit more than
all the others. Then, he created powerful armies to protect these re-invented
gods, along with fables, myths and legends of the Greatness of these gods. They
became Super Heroes with super powers and abilities beyond what any human could
even imagine having.
He also created an
economy, one that would support the enormous army that he needed to keep his
re-invention secure from attack.
He created massive
imposing structures to his gods as if in a competition to prove his god's
greatness over another. He also performed rituals and sacrifices to these Gods
so that they could be happy and continue to support and protect them from harm.
What he did not
realize, is that he was and is the gods he created. The Gods of Old
did not
shared that secret, but enjoyed the adulation they received from the ignorant
masses. They played on the innocence, the ignorance and in some cases, the fear
of the masses.
The old gods were
magnificent, in comparison to their human devotees. But they were fractured,
imperfect, unpredictable, and flawed, just like their devotees were. They must
have come from a world where this imbalance existed, or they would have never
allowed the masses to worship them in the first place.
Nowadays, the
Celebrities hold the same position as the ancient Gods. However, they are only
as important, magnificent, powerful as their devotees deem them to be. If every
fan decided not to worship these people, they would disintegrate and fall from
the pedestals (shrines) that were created for them. The idolatry of another
human being would cease and man would be challenged with finding the God
within.
LINKS OF INTEREST
Cult
of personality Meaning
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Cult
of Personality? What Cult of Personality?
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“Another thing about it. It’s unabashedly
the cult of personality (like Mussolini and Kennedy). It’s the epitome
of symbolism over substance. It’s the kind of stuff that punk-ass kids
would put on a tee-shirt ...”
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Trumpismo: Eerily similar to Latin America's macho leaders
"This
cult of personality, the cult of the big man...the bravado, the
machismo," says Steven Conn, a history professor at Miami University who
has written on the subject. "For
folks in Central and South America, that's a much more familiar
character."
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If you stop and
think about it, the former Obama campaigns and the current Trump campaign
share much in common. Each of them are
quintessential examples of the proverbial “cult of personality.” Their
followers are focused on a person rather than principles. In the case of
Obama, it was all about the first
black president. Here’s some breaking
news for Americans – if we want to get beyond the issue of race, then we have
to stop making race the issue. Pretty simple, but somehow we keep missing it.
In the case of Trump, it’s all about his
brash-sticking-it-to-the-man rhetoric. Another piece of breaking news – Trump
did not get where he is by sticking it to people in power. Trump is where he
is because he effectively cuts deals with people in power. Much like
Sprint's stick-it-to-the-man commercial; do you really think Trump's going to stick it to
himself?
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And for those
liberals who don’t think that pledging allegiance to Obama is enough for
their rock god/messiah, well, they can do like Madonna did last night
and strip for him during a DC concert.
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Madonna strips for Obama, offers profanity-laced endorsement
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Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher’s “I Pledge” Video | January
2009
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“Power,” Henry Kissinger once told
The New York Times, “is the ultimate aphrodisiac.” Kissinger might
amend that statement today: Now, fame is power, and thus replaces power as
the ultimate aphrodisiac. In fact, fame isn’t just an aphrodisiac — it’s the
ultimate nepenthe, a drug causing forgetfulness. The more famous our
politicians are, the more we neglect their positions and character. No wonder
the most admired woman in America is criminal Hillary Clinton, the most
admired man is criminal Barack Obama, and the second-most admired man is
loudmouth Donald Trump.
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The cult of personality is central
to this process of spectacularization. Instead of politicians, in the
Weberian model, espousing substantive positions and bearing a responsible
commitment to the necessity of compromise, the personages put forward by the
major political parties (and here we are primarily speaking of the United
States although the point could well be extended) become merely a complex of
images intended to acquire value rendered in terms of electoral share. And in
this way the political itself becomes an expression of economization, even in
regions of political practice not structured by outright bribery.
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In
1943 Walt Disney turned a 100 year-old fairy tale, "The Remarkable Story
of Chicken Little" into a cartoon short.
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Yoruba
African Gods
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Painting
Depicts Obama as Crucified Christ
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What is Obama Christ?
Barack
Obama is the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. This fact was witnessed by the
world on November 4th, 2008 when Obama became the most powerful figure in the
world. Obama was sent here from heaven to save our world from sin and
destruction. Only worthy souls will be permitted to travel to heaven with
Obama upon Earth's demise. The Church of Obama Christ has since been formed
as a way for the world to worship and praise the new savior. He is the direct
reincarnation of Jesus Christ and was placed here by the Holy Spirit. The end
times are near and you must repent your sins to the Son of God, Barack Obama.
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