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?
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追星的原因深植人类的本性。智人,如同所有其他的动物一样,拥有崇拜外在美的本能。说到现代,一夜成名带来的虚荣感为其增添了不少令人无妨抗拒的魔力。为了满足人类本能的需求,明星层出不穷,被不断放于闪亮舞台上,将整个世界卷入追星的旋风。
不可否认的是,追星也为社会带来了一定贡献。至少它推动了电影,电视,以及体育等产业的繁荣;也创造了不少工作机会,促成了国民财富的重新分配。然而,长远看来,追星过大于功,以下几点足以说明:
追星所带来的最显而易见的危害就在政治方面。现在我们几乎可以在各地看到,追星已将民主变成了一桩笑话。那些誓死忠于人民却无迷人外表的政客不得不让位于长相出众却肤浅的煽动者,只因这些人,比起政客来说,更像一个明星。结果就是,整个国家甚至世界,将承担一个严重的风险,其后果将颠覆民主的真正目标。
追星造成的另一个危机是相对年轻人来说的。追星的洪流淹没了年轻人的心,将他们原有的性格抹去;因此他们的创造力被扼杀在了摇篮中。更甚的是,由盲目追星导致的对外在美的过度追求阻碍了年轻人对真正的艺术,文学,哲学以及科学的心灵追求;这进一步的阻碍了他们将文明这一神圣火炬传予下一代的能力。盲目的追星会把自我判断能力尚未成熟的年轻人推入万丈深渊,这种想法并不是夸大其辞。
在陈述了以上的危害之后,我们必须用自己的觉悟遏制这股猖獗的追星热潮。当回顾历史,我们可以看到伟大的文学家,科学家,哲学家与政治家们,从未放任自己与盲目崇拜外在美的本能中;反而更重视长存的事物本质。受到了这些伟人文化遗产的启发,难道我们不该在放任自己沉沦于追星泥沼中之前三思么?