Note (2021-11-12 09:04)

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In these fame-mad times of ours, celebrity isn’t just a currency, with which almost anything can be bought. It’s a kind of spell, endowing some of its possessors with a sense of omnipotence. Treated like gods, they start to act that way.

What a universally applicable observation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/11/opinion/aaron-rodgers-mehmet-oz.html