Paris for President

This was the slogan I saw on a girls tank top today as I was walking back to my office from lunch. I guess the scary thing was I know who Paris is. Oh how I wish I lived under a rock and found this slogan nonsensical. "Paris for President? How can a place have a job? Next they'll have t-shirts saying Addis Ababa for Governor General."

But alas, I know who Paris is and my reaction was "Sure why not president, she got everything else by doing nothing." It got me thinking about the whole Paris Hilton phenomenon, apart from how a total skank got to be a role model for millions of teenage girls, I think it reveals a lot about what captures the imaginations of the collective public. This girl has become famous for being famous. She was born with all the money she will ever need and yet she feels the need for fame too.

We currently live in a world where most people would like to be rich and famous without having to do any work for it and we idolize those people who have managed to achieve it.