Well I have a guestion too. It's what do you mean by a serious comment. I don't know who Maria Carey is. Oh, I know she sings. At least I think she's a singer. But I don't know what she sings and I don't know anything about her life, and I know that part of the reason is that, on the one hand such things are of no interest to me, and on the other that part of the reason they are of no interest to me is because my life is far more interesting to me than hers or any other singer, performer, or so called famous person. Not the reason I feel this way is, in my opinion, because I am a serious person. And part of what happened on the way to becomming serious was that I lost all interest in wanting to belong to anything. I have no team, no society, no social grouping, no race, no religion, no nation, no nothing to which I attach myself for the comfort of belonging and drawing a source of identity. Being serious caused all that to be completely empty for me.
So when you ask a question like why do people disrespect a famous, in some cases former, idol, and at the same time ask for serious answers, well, what can I tell you. I know the answer, but I don't really think you were looking for an answer. I think you were looking for a way to preserve and protect or defend something you have identified with. If people don't like Maria Carey, maybe they don't like you. Maybe there is something wrong with you. Maybe you need to get your identifications in order so you can fit in and be normal, get the proper back slapping, or get everybody else to join your team. It's all the same.
So the serious answer to your question, and the one I know you weren't looking for, is that people identify. They are sheep, as we like to say. Why? The answer is that we feel bad about ourselves. We feel worthless. But we don't know that, and we don't want to know that. Se we identify with somebody or something around us that is getting praise, love, affermation, all the things we are dying for inside, but feel we are too worthless to deserve. In this way we become vacarious beings with no life of our own. We become the team member, the great group member, one of the best race, one from the best nation, etc. We try to fill our emptiness with externals.
But when an idol falls from power, we, many of us, turn against it. Our hate for ourselves now comes out against the fallen idol. You worthless piece of crap, you failed me as a substitute for self love.
Now from the above serious words you can build a picture of the entire sleeping world if you choose to, but I know what will really happen. I've been serious for a while now.
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