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Mark G.'s avatar

Incredible stuff, and a perfect metaphor.

I often wonder where these people would be if social media ever came crashing down permanently. If ‘followers’ returned to simply the people in our everyday lives. What will they change into then? Who will they become? Because these people are chameleons, adapting to the colour of the moment, to be accepted or ‘followed’ by other chameleons looking for meaning and identity.

A sad, sad state, and one that will not end well.

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Christopher Gage's avatar

Good question. They'd need therapy. Or they'd find ways to be 'famous' within their setting. I grew up around a lot of small-town royalty. I'd rather the Tet Offensive!

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SIRIUS's avatar

You havent heard of Zagreb, Croatia being a destination for plastic surgery? Only few months ago, when I was in my favourite CBD shop, a british gal entered like a storm, demanding some THC oils, for her pain. She had her nose done. Out of her mind, she was frustrated to hear that THC is illegal and that all she could get was just plain CBD oil. Taxi was waiting outside and she was in no mood to observe any nice behavior. After she bullied me, maybe I could help her? Upon hearing how I could, but in a day or two, she got the most expensive CBD stuff and ran out in search of some THC. Adding that she DID have a vape cart with THC which she smuggled with her, but how her battery was out and she could not use it. It was a Saturday evening, all shops were already closed.. hahahh...

I heard we have a top surgeon, very known in EU, who now does reverse trans surgery. Seems like transgenders are not liking their new set-ups as much as mass media would want us to believe!

You are completely right. These numbskulls are all on a Sisyphus mission. They will look like demnted beasts when they hit 50, maybe even sooner. Have you seen fresh pics of Madonna. She looks like the devil, minus the horns and scarlet colored skin, from that old movie with Tom Cruise and unicorns, I forget the name...

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Christopher Gage's avatar

Yeah. These procedures are not having the effect desired!

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Lola James's avatar

such a brilliant and insightful piece!

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Christopher Gage's avatar

Thank you. Keep writing!

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KW NORTON's avatar

Lol. Good post. This reminds me of my posts on influencers (or disruptors in Glass Onion) where comic relief on influencers is raised to a high art. I compared this Wokeness to the World Economic Forum brand of totalitarianism.

https://open.substack.com/pub/kwnorton/p/is-the-world-economic-forum-a-glass?r=boqs0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

https://open.substack.com/pub/kwnorton/p/modern-fasism-is-it-a-glass-onion?r=boqs0&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

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Carl Nelson's avatar

Well done and a fine send off. "It’s like a strange planet populated by a strange tribe which says ‘hello’ by showing you its arse."

You have surely, "seen eternity in a grain of sand and infinity in a bum"

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Denny Royston's avatar

Excellent piece, now excuse me whilst I reimagine myself.

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Casey Jones's avatar

Lost count of boobs? Seen two, ya seen 'em all... oh, that was boob jobs!

I believe that it was in a semi-required college "sociology" "class" that it was revealed by Prof Bruggen (an actual person notwithstanding his unfortunate profession -- a stutterer, who puckishly signed himself "BBBruggen") there were at the time ('80s) and possibly still are three routes to fame: Being Good (Mother Theresa, et al, actually; "leaders" supposedly), Being Bad (Jeffrey Daumer, et al) and simply for being famous (the Kardashians being the poster children even then of a breed that has metastasized -- frighteningly). I wondered at the time how there could be enough followers with sufficiently poor excuses for lives to keep such animated head lice int the "news." Now...?

But the serious question is: What has become of the formerly respectable medical profession? As with the monstrous gender benders over here, Mengele has clearly replaced Hippocrates as the lodestar.

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Anthony Lenaghan's avatar

Great piece as ever.

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Kirk McDonald II's avatar

Mr. Gage. I never understood the fascination of the celebrity. I remember being ask as a young adult that childish question, who is your favorite star.

I could never answer that question.

I like a good movie or television production, but don't worship them.

Maybe I am just an outsider looking in.

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Christopher Gage's avatar

Same. Though I appreciate that they're an infinite source of satiric material.

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Kirk McDonald II's avatar

LOL, yes they are. Especially the Kardashians.

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Toffeepud's avatar

Like going to the zoo.....but with humans....I struggle with the fascination too. Especially the Kardashians.

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Kirk McDonald II's avatar

LOL, the zoo is the perfect analogy.

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