The Manic Misadventures of Kim Kardashian

Perhaps I’m getting old. Or perhaps I’m just “out of the loop”. I used to know pop-culture’s top celebrities like it was nobody’s business. I was hip, happening, “with it”.

It recently became all too clear that I am no longer in the demographic in which most popular entertainment is aimed. This occurred when the news buzzed with reports that Kim Kardashian was getting divorced after 72 days of marriage. When I read this on the Huffington Post, my first response was, “Who?”

A few friends have questioned whether I am being completely honest. After all, they say, Kim Kardashian isn’t exactly new to the pop scene. She’s been a media darling (or whore) since her sex tape became public in 2007. She has also been a part of the E! reality series “Keeping Up With The Kardashians”, which I had also never heard of before.

Being a guy who doesn’t want to admit how out of the loop I am, I decided to do some digging, get the scoop, apply my powers of deduction to the entire Kardashian saga. In other words, I looked her up on Wikipedia.

It seems she became famous for a sex tape. But she would say she’s not a porn actress. However, she seems to have used this “leaked” tape as a way to boost her “celebrity” status in 2007. A few months later, the reality show “Keeping Up With The Kardashians” premiered, and was an instant hit, no doubt to her sex tape fame.

Kim then went on to model, pose in Playboy, become a socialite, blah, blah, blah.

Like Paris Hilton, this woman has made a business out of being a celebrity. it seems she gets as much press out of people complaining about her as she does people following her every inconsequential move. Hers is a life of trying for constant attention, and realizing that if you get that attention, your pocket book gets larger and larger.

So why do people care? I don’t really know. We seem to be in a culture that loves to follow the misadventures of young, pretty harlots with no talent and do not make a legitimate contribution to society (unless it suits their “brand”). It seems strange that in a world where “Occupy Wall Street”, a serious attempt at bettering the world by looking beyond the material, is in the news, Kim Kardashian’s “wedding” can be equally as reported upon. The our American political system, our culture and media seems to be seriously fragmented over what is and is not important.

Perhaps it’s the internet culture that can make any one an instant celebrity. Or maybe it’s a flagging of true American values, and a lowering of the bar in our modern culture. Or maybe I’m just old. At least now I’m up-to-date with who Kim Kardashian is, and I don’t feel any better for it.


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