Well I think a big part of that is also that the people who people like get famous and then being famous makes it easy to get money. So idk that it would be possible to have rich and famous people in general and not have society be obsessed with them. America is just weird in that their famous people are not the historically normal famous people. Like it used to be that the famous people were the ones making big impacts on societies. Now it’s who can put on the biggest spectacle.
Why? That’s what american culture is.
We think scientists are evil and football players are heroic.
The only time american culture lauded scientists was post ww2, but that didn’t last very long and the national push for sciences declined by the 70s.
We also love rich and famous people, don’t forget.
Well I think a big part of that is also that the people who people like get famous and then being famous makes it easy to get money. So idk that it would be possible to have rich and famous people in general and not have society be obsessed with them. America is just weird in that their famous people are not the historically normal famous people. Like it used to be that the famous people were the ones making big impacts on societies. Now it’s who can put on the biggest spectacle.