Deborah King Celebrities

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Palmer wrote a response to Deborah King’s article, “The Impact Celebrities Have on Our Lives”. According to Palmer being fascinated by the rich and famous has been happening for ages. The only difference is that individuals are beginning to become obsessed with celebrities. Many of the celebrities that are being worshipped by the people around the world are portrayed as terrible people. A vast majority of people are currently amused by the daily lives of their favorite celebrity; otherwise, ordinary people do not know what else to with their free time. Furthermore, having an obsession towards a favorite celebrity is not necessarily an unhealthy way of living, but instead a way more interesting way for a person to not only gain knowledge about …show more content…

An innumerable amount of the people from the society in our day and time would love to catch a glimpse of their favorite celebrity go through what Lindsay did back in 2010. Deborah King mentioned in her article, “When Britney Spears is brought to the hospital and evaluated for bipolar disorder, we feel differently about our own depression”. Which means that people want to take note that their favorite celebrities are also humanly parallel to the rest of the population. An enormous amount of people need to be distracted almost every day; otherwise, everyone would turn completely insane. People would not have anything interesting to discuss amongst themselves when having a conversation. According to Palmer most of the society having celebrities in their life is a must, because people prefer to discuss about celebrities than to discuss what is going on around the world. For example, people would prefer to converse about what Kanye West had for breakfast, or what Beyonce was wearing at the Grammy’s. Instead of talking about natural disasters that are occurring around the world. Individuals enjoy being distracted from their surroundings by watching television or listening to their favorite kind of

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