Saturday, June 23, 2007
Paris Hilton?!
Can someone explain to me why our society continues to have the morbid fascination with the world's most spoiled, self-centered, self-absorbed, narcissistic, conceited, egotistic and immature (the adjectives could be endless) person? Maybe society is getting tired of the over abundance of self-entitlement seen more and more. You know who I'm talking about - the person who cuts in front of you at the grocery store check-out line. The person who parks their car in a crowded parking lot and takes up two spaces (or better yet the person parking in a handicap parking space with no placard or known disability). Even the person who gets arrested for committing criminal acts but blames the police officer who arrested them rather than themselves, falls so blatantly into this category.
But lest we forget poor Paris: here's a woman who has been showered with wealth and taught to take absolutely no personal responsibility for her actions. She feigned ignorance the two times she was stopped for driving on a suspended license (saying she pays someone to read all her paperwork and didn't let her know what the suspension paperwork said). She had incredibly high paid attorneys attempting to argue why she should not receive incarceration for ignoring the fact she was placed on probation (a privilege, not a right, I believe) for an original DUI offense (an offense in which she was lucky not to have hurt or killed an innocent person).
I be live the fascination with this case lies in this: after being sentenced to hard time and spending a traumatic 3 days in jail before being prematurely released, Miss Hilton was summoned back to court to explain to the judge why his orders weren't followed specifically (no release on any type of alternative sentencing). When Paris was ordered to be taken back into custody, she was allowed no time to fix her makeup or write a heartfelt blog to her fans. While being taken away by deputies, she wailed how it was not fair, and cried for her mother (she is 26, not 6, right?). I believe, among the commentaries of how our society is raising our children to be less responsible (one term I like is the 'sippycupization of America'), there are more and more of us tired of seeing this stereotype played out on a daily basis. I found it strangely satisfying to see Paris forced to take a consequence for her behavior. It shows everyone that money alone (minus the famous court examples of O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson) cannot place someone above the law.
I'm sure we'll continue to see examples of people who were raised without consequence for their misdeeds, oblivious to the world around them. But for now, I can only ask that society say enough to the Paris Hilton saga. She finally saw her consequence and we hope with that she moves that much closer to being a kinder, selfless and more responsible person.
Yeah, right.
But lest we forget poor Paris: here's a woman who has been showered with wealth and taught to take absolutely no personal responsibility for her actions. She feigned ignorance the two times she was stopped for driving on a suspended license (saying she pays someone to read all her paperwork and didn't let her know what the suspension paperwork said). She had incredibly high paid attorneys attempting to argue why she should not receive incarceration for ignoring the fact she was placed on probation (a privilege, not a right, I believe) for an original DUI offense (an offense in which she was lucky not to have hurt or killed an innocent person).
I be live the fascination with this case lies in this: after being sentenced to hard time and spending a traumatic 3 days in jail before being prematurely released, Miss Hilton was summoned back to court to explain to the judge why his orders weren't followed specifically (no release on any type of alternative sentencing). When Paris was ordered to be taken back into custody, she was allowed no time to fix her makeup or write a heartfelt blog to her fans. While being taken away by deputies, she wailed how it was not fair, and cried for her mother (she is 26, not 6, right?). I believe, among the commentaries of how our society is raising our children to be less responsible (one term I like is the 'sippycupization of America'), there are more and more of us tired of seeing this stereotype played out on a daily basis. I found it strangely satisfying to see Paris forced to take a consequence for her behavior. It shows everyone that money alone (minus the famous court examples of O.J. Simpson and Michael Jackson) cannot place someone above the law.
I'm sure we'll continue to see examples of people who were raised without consequence for their misdeeds, oblivious to the world around them. But for now, I can only ask that society say enough to the Paris Hilton saga. She finally saw her consequence and we hope with that she moves that much closer to being a kinder, selfless and more responsible person.
Yeah, right.
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¶ 10:16 AM
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Beware anyone named after a city. I can't really think of any other examples but it seems like a red flag to me. We've only just begun to hear of Paris I'm afraid.. she'll be bald, mascara stained, and gesturing to a camera through a hospital window after a botched botox forehead transplant before it's over. and even then she won't even yet be 30... faced with 60 1 dimensional years of empty life perhaps ahead of her. Let's pray there is some obscure unwritten rule that publishing companies won't publish books written by authors who can't read. Enjoy these the last days of the 2nd Roman Empire. In fact let's all surf this wave into the mud. we'll clean up later. Remember.. "Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude." -Oscar Wilde
But it's time to forgive Paris cause she gave an interview to Ryan Seacrest in which she said that she was all sorry and stuff, and now she's reading The Secret and might adopt some babies like Angelina, and do all kinds of charity crap n stuff.
This whole thing has been worthwhile if for nothing else but to spawn terms like "sippy cupization."
Speaking of people named after cities, when Tiffany in the Luann comic strip changed her name to Sheraton St. Louis, it was certainly a profound statement about nothing.
It makes me want to cry for my mommy.
Speaking of people named after cities, when Tiffany in the Luann comic strip changed her name to Sheraton St. Louis, it was certainly a profound statement about nothing.
It makes me want to cry for my mommy.
# posted by 
: June 23, 2007 at 4:44 PM
: June 23, 2007 at 4:44 PM
I don't know about anyone else, but I plan on staying up tonight to watch Paris' release from prison live on E!. If you're in the neighborhood drop by, I'll pop some corn.
Makry I'm there. Let's make poppers. and them lemon coolie things. Let's have a reunion every year.. call it Paris Nights.
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