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They found that people who have mild celebrity worship are more outgoing, happy and optimistic.
But on the darker side, fans who follow celebrities for intense-personal reasons are likely to be more depressed and anxious, while those who demonstrate high levels of sociopathic celebrity worship "may well be solitary, impulsive, anti-social and troublesome."
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My reasons would be as described in the second paragraph above. They are deleterious to our sane, healthy functioning.
You may say, "Well, the first sentence above states a positive effect."
Yes, agreed. I don't focus much on that because what really concerns me is how absolutely everyone places themselves in that category. And also how we respond to this and other similar topics with a thinly veiled defense and self-justification of our own feelings about our "entertainment".
If I encountered people who were willing to expend more than a cursory sentence about how the "products" that are dumped on our heads as in a school girls' hazing ritual may have some problematic aspects when excessively ingested, it would tend to convince me you are willing to acknowledge these things have a measured amount of mind poison in them, rather than just stating in one way or another that they don't affect you personally because you are a discriminating individual or perhaps because you're parents raised you well.
At that point, the question is a matter of degree.
I'd be happy to leave it at that if you'd be willing to admit and perhaps discuss as if it were worthy of discussing that there are some things quite debilitating about popular culture.