Friday, October 05, 2007

The Camille Paglia theory of Britney's meltdown

Dr. Phil says it may be a wise thing to have her involuntarily committed, she may even pose a suicide risk the theory being that Owen Wilson, look how normal and happy-go-lucky he was and what he did so what would a kooky person do? I'd love to have Britney's life though, I mean the good aspects, you're being creative and artistic and don't have to put in your 9-5 like most of us paeons. Even if she never put out another CD and called it quits on her touring she has enough of the dinars to live happily ever after so

wha'sa problem?

I gotta go along with feminist writer Camille Paglia though. In any good investigation you can create a timeline and a linear clue quickly emerges, her life began to, ever so slightly, spiral out of control the day she and Madonna liplocked at the Video Music Awards on MTV, Paglia calls it her kiss of death. So maybe it's not so much what Dr. Phil says or the Brooke Shields theory of post-partum depression (is this responsible for the situation in the Middle East too Brooke?) but it may have everything to do with her moral compass. You look at that other problem child Lindsay and you feel her hopes are better, she at least seems very aware she has a problem and is actually more likeable than Brit who recently served her own Mom with a court order to stay away from her own grandkids while she's on her meds and don't blame it all on the paparazzi either, these people want fame but they don't want it but they still want their picture in the paper.

I personally don't believe Britney deserves all this coverage, a one-year blackout on all things Britney might be a good thing. Last I checked we had a War on Terror going on.....

2 comments:

  1. What I don't get about people like Britney is the attitude, I mean

    is it that bad?

    worked with a woman once, moody-booty we called her, absolutely miserable all the time and I made the salient point to another co-worker that Holocaust survivors have better attitudes. Some people are unhappy and have every right to be, woman gets dumped by husband and gets cancer, but what was this woman's problem, the moody-booty?

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  2. Getting back to Dr. Phil's point I might diverge a little. Sometimes kooky people don't do anything, it's the Owen Wilsons who you have to worry about. I've worked in more than one place where a female co-worker will insist that a certain male customer is "stalking" her and yet the kooky one never does anything but some jealous boyfriend will come out of the blue and cause problems for somebody, the guy you all went out with to dinner once and he seemed like such a swell guy. Dr. Phil's call for her involuntary commitment is radical, do we put all the kooks away against their will? I mean it's one thing to take her children away but do you know how many kooky people there are in this country (and they vote)?

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