killing yourself to live

i have been reading 'killing yourself to live' by chuck klosterman and here is an excerpt that i love. it goes along with my non-fascination with celebrities and celebrity status.

This is how popular culture works: you allow yourself to be convinced you're sharing a reality that doesn't exist. Every summer, Hollywood movie studios convince millions of people to see blockbuster movies they know they're going to hate. Every day, shows like Access Hollywood force 2 million housewives to ask themselves, "who really cares who Lindsay Lohan is dating?" And you know what the answer to that question is? Almost no one. There are very few Americans who honestly care who Linsday Lohan is dating. But it's still information they need to have. This is because those people care about something else entirely; they're worried about the possibility of everyone else understanding something that they're missing. This is what they're afraid of, and this is how they deduce societal truth."
-chuck klosterman