Crucifying Celebrities
By Michael Boyajian
There is a Beatles song about John Lennon and Yoko Ono where John sings, “they’re going to crucify me.” And that is what we do today, we crucify celebrities.
Why do we do this to people who entertain us, who make us happy and sad, who bring emotion into our lives and do little to harm to the planet like say our elected officials and corporate executives? Look at Tiger Woods, a golfer. No threat at all to the planet. Yet the media went after him as if he were a family values politician who was caught soliciting sex in a bathroom while calling for the president to declare war on say someone as revered as the Dalai Lama. I mean he was just a golfer. He hit a little ball around on the grass for a living.