Remember when Britney Spears used to be funny?

It used to be we laughed at people like Britney Spears but it is our society that creates spectacles like this by building up individuals to be valueless and to provide valuelessness to our society. I think of all the teachers, social services providers and artists who endlessly toil to make our world a better place yet we, all of us, me included, spend our time rewarding those with financial prosperity and empty recognition only to sit back and be amused when their lives inevitably fall apart. Isn't that hilarious? The wasting away of our "celebrities" in public speaks much more of us than of them. After all, they are only humans and subject to the same fallibilities, dreams, desires, and temptations as we are. Yet, how tempting and how sickening to take joy and judgement at the writhing in pain of another human being, no matter who they are, no matter what level of income or ease they live at.