The picture is a vivid reflection of the wide-spread star-worship by depicting a man,representing the miniature of the rising phenomenon,who is planning to have a hair cut in the style of Beckham.Indeed,as it indicates,the trickles of star-worship have become a torrent around the world,whose influences have reached at even most out-of-the-way areas.
The reason of star-worship is deeply rooted in human nature.On the one hand,homo sapiens,like other animals,have the basic instinct of enchantment by appearance beauty.On the other hand,the vanity dream of arising to fame of stars is one of the main factors that give rise to human beings’ activities with irresistible charm and dominating power.For appealing to people’s instinctive needs,a number of stars are produced endlessly and set into the shinning stage of sensation one after another,whirling the world into star-worship tornado.
Admittedly,star-worship does confer certain contribution upon the society,at least it boosts the prosperity of the industry of film,TV,and sports,creats more job opportunities,and facilitates the re-distribution of national wealth,however,in the long run,its harms outweigh its benefits,as is suggested by the following points.
The most apparent harm of it comes in the domain of politics.As we can discover everywhere,it is making a more and more conspicuous mockery of what democratic system should be,by declaring death in election campaigns to great politicians loyal to people but without pleasing exterior shape,who have to give way to beautiful but skin-deep demagogues who bear more resemblance to popular stars,in consequence,the whole country or the world may run a terrible and undesirable risk,whose results seem to be subversion of the assumed democratic purpose.
Another jeopardy caused by it is in regard to young people.The flood of star-worship inundates young people’ hearts and drowns their original characteristics,thereby their creative power is stripped of or smothered in embryo.Moreover,the excessive desire for exterior beauty,which is stirred up by blind star-worship,undermines young people’s spiritual pursuits in real art,literature,philosophy,and science,without which they can hardly hold the sacred torch of civilization transferred to them from preceding generations.The notion is not exaggerating that blind star-worship will probably engulf young people whose discretion is not enough into abysmal darkness,and thus buried with them is the hope of future..
Given the above harms,the rampant star-worship must be restraint by our own conciousness.If retrospecting into the history,we could find that the great beaux esprits,scientists,philosophers,politicians and so forth never indulge their instinct of worshipping superficial beauty.Instead,they highlight the essence that outlives the appearance.At the enlightenment of their cultural legacy,shouldn’t we think twice before sinking deeper and deeper into the hopeless swamp of star-worship?
