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How telling can one caption be?
This one and the accompanying story speak volumes, that yes, will endure. Sadly reminiscent of the Anna Nicole Smith tragedy was this heiress's wailing. The no makeup reality it presented was hard to hear. I know I'm not afraid to say that it caught my attention. Indeed, it put me in an eerie frame of mind. Paris Hilton is representative. Representative of the cupidity that's involved in striving for ideals that aren't balanced in any way shape or form, but are representative nonetheless.
If she implodes. If her claims of stress that go on to make her incarceration cruel prove to be true, her star will once again be our focus. As such, her indictment is our indictment. And to talk of the "help" she should seek, or the just desserts of her sentence without recognizing the same strictures should apply to us with much greater force is the ultimate in denial.
Somebody stop this ride man, I want to get off.
We have overlooked so often the facts that led right to where we are. There is a litany of occurrences that have become an industry of voyeurism. Voyeurs are essentially parasites, though. Behavior perfectly fitting of our consumer culture, and Paris is our paradigm. All along, we knew (or should have known!) she was just toying with us on this "journey" of hers we longed to follow.
Too bad we don't have the kind of money she has to drive away from the cliff!
