…or are our celebrities presidents?

The broader question being: Have we become obsessed with celebrities because we haven’t had adequate leadership? (end: central leadership. Contemporarily, Obama)

…or has our desire for central leadership diminished slowly since the advent of the printing press, our attentions instead focused on an ever-growing celebrity network? (end: individual leadership, or bubble-up).

The internet has begun to blur the line between celebrity (star) and layperson. It allows us immediate biographical information, revealing that they’re “just like us”. That knowledge begins to empower the individual to stop looking outward for guidance. The emergence of Obama confirms this for us, through his embrace of technology (use of viral campaign media) and his belief in human rights (ending poverty, torture, etc.) and our constitution (one president-at-a-time). He’s a star in a different sense. His fame circulated throughout the world very quickly.

We can look to him, or look inward, to analyze ourselves and our motives.