Celebrity narcissism: A bad reflection for kids

The celebrity-obsessed culture causing us to become more narcissistic. It may be especially dangerous for young people, who view celebrities as role models. We are all guilty of thinking that is healthy to have a strong ego. However, we take our ego's to an excessive like we do with allot of things in our life's.To feel good about oneself and want to see our reflected glory in another person's eyes is not negative. There's a creative energy that is very positive. But when it gets out of control, such as losing empathy or acting out and not reflecting upon dysfunctional behavior, that's when we have concerns. As a society if we continue the idea of our culture promoting this focus on celebrities. We should be concerned. It's anathema to what's healthy for humans — interpersonal experiences and being of service — as opposed to preoccupying oneself with extreme, chaotic, dysfunctional behavior and modeling those behaviors and wishing to be part of that and never experiencing a stable family life and not being able to trust other people or themselves. For those who say "It's just fun," why are you motivated to look at those people? Why gravitate to watching their troubles and their pathology? That's not OK. You feel better about your life with their misery. That's not what I call an admirable impulse. Their values are now being set. Are they really the values we want our young people to be absorbing? Do we want them to have a revolving-door love life, or stable relationships? It harkens back to the question of how much are young people affected by models of social learning. Humans are the only animals who learn by watching other humans. Why don't we examine human reality here? Why don't we have that conversation and use it as an opportunity to look at the behavior of people and say "What is it really about? What can we learn and avoid that kind of behavior?" If parents don't intervene, that's where kids go.