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