For the record I don’t want to come over as some kind of wowser – I am the last person that should step up for the role of “Society’s moral compass” but how the triple F does she manage to stay popular.

Is it some kind of quasi-osmotic experience of what life could be like if the cards fell in a different order for the viewer.

Is it the same experience that is derived from songs that tell me (well, not me personally, but if the guy in the car next to me has the volume up so loud that MY windows shake – at least I feel like they are telling me) that life is about “Ridin’ on twenny fo’s” and guzzling Courviousier while partaking of at least 3 of the opposite sex on a handily placed dance floor at the Cleeeerb.

Have we been so influenced by mass-media representation that it has become our reality?

Rather than being held up as an example for how opportunity can be wasted, Paris is being looked up to by people who are now considering “Vapid person in the spotlight” as a carreer option.

I don’t understand.

The chk chk BOOM girl from sydney is a great example of how it seems to work. She was paid THOUSANDS to appear on an Australian “News (infomercial disguised in news-desk format)” show.

Thousands, just because she got her head on camera and said some really dumb stuff.

Meanwhile, there are thousands of out-of-work actors in the same country because the independent film industry can’t raise a couple of bucks.

Franchise entertainment.

And really – it’s only just begun.