Balloon Boy
October 22, 2009
Brett McCracken has written a great article about what the Balloon Boy hoax says about the rest of us:
The Balloon Boy incident is simply the latest reminder that our culture is utterly, aggressively, dangerously obsessed with fame.
These days, it seems like everything else one might do with one’s life is nothing next to that most valued of all achievements: notoriety. And increasingly, fame can come without doing much of anything anyway. It has become an end unto itself, a commodity of attention to which nearly everyone compulsively clamors, grabbing for it and gathering it whenever and however they can.
What’s up with this?
You can read the rest of the article here.
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