The horror. . .the horror. . .

In Barack Obama, we now have the perfect fusion of the cult of celebrity and the cult of power. Behold this abomination of desolation:In this video, astonishingly bad singers warble while a worshiping throng chants the magic name that will usher in heaven on earth.Jessica Alba’s comment late in the video is revealing. “I would like the rest of the world to think highly of our amazing country.”This is a theme you hear a lot from Hollywood celebs. In their eyes, George W. Bush’s unpardonable sin was to make America “unpopular” in the world. And it stands to reason that a culture of people who live and die on the basis of how adored they are would view the world through the lens of popularity.  Not strength, not security, not rightness. Just popularity. That, in a celebrity cult culture, is the measure of all things.And that culture has found it’s candidate.

~ by The Oracle on March 6, 2008.