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FAME
Clipping and ‘bronzing’ a rose.
Vindication of a drive for sanctification.
Fallaciously ascribing superiority to
contrived images.
Projecting supernatural abilities in order
to ‘create’ demigods.
Fanciful, sometimes hysterical obsessions
with ‘attractiveness’.
A fantasy of what we might be which helps
us escape from who we are.
A remedy for feelings of helplessness and
impotency: Potent vicariousness.
A necessary elite of superior beings who
are imbued with qualities we aspire to.
A natural propensity to elevate some
members of society in a quest for perfection.
A mass awareness of an individual who
encourages inordinate attention and subjective ‘embracing’.
- Perhaps we are often too quick to
equate role-playing with achievement.
- Perhaps a troll can become a monarch
when dressed in ermine and gold.
- Perhaps elevating individuals gives us
hope … that we can be more than what we are.
- Perhaps in our zeal to embrace ‘models
of excellence’ we often settle for style over substance.
- Perhaps we are always seeking ‘better’
and ‘worse’ in order to put ourselves in proper perspective.
- Perhaps our aspirations so dominate us
that we crave and accept ‘vindications’ in a variety of
forms.
- Perhaps we are compelled to consider
our potentialities; perhaps we create heroes to encourage
our progress.
- Perhaps celebrity often coerces a
performer into self-deceptive believing that they are what
others have created.
- Perhaps it is in our nature to admire
uniqueness; perhaps charisma often engenders enduring myth
with universal appeal.
- Perhaps sterling characteristics that
benefit mankind will always be sought; perhaps in
celebrating these traits in others we are providing lessons
and goals sorely needed by the flawed.
Did grandiose fantasies abound in your youth??
ESSAY
ON FAME by EDWIN
O’SHEA
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