"Celebrity news so often serves as a numbing distraction from depressing world events."
"When we ought to be worrying about climate change, we're actually consuming the sweet lotus seeds of the latest Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni filings."
"And when we should be warily eyeing European rearmament, we're actually cackling at Joanna Lumley saying that Ab Fab era Jennifer Saunders looked like "a sphinx with a migraine"."
Celebrity news routinely redirects public attention away from urgent global challenges and policy concerns. Attention that could focus on climate change is absorbed by celebrity filings and private dramas. Economic issues such as tariffs are sidelined while voters reassess entertainers’ personalities. Security matters like European rearmament are treated as punchlines or fodder for gossip rather than serious strategic concerns. The pattern replaces civic vigilance with amusement and judgment about personal lives, privileging sensationalism and triviality over sustained engagement with systemic, existential threats.
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