'Imaginary Friends' - George Monbiot

George Monbiot.

(Those of us concerned about climate change need to think deeply about the implications of what George Monbiot has to say – Robert McLean)

Now that a reality TV star is preparing to become president of the United States, can we agree that celebrity culture is more than just harmless fun? That it might in fact be an essential component of the systems that govern our lives?

The rise of celebrity culture did not happen by itself. It has long been cultivated by advertisers, marketers and the media. And it has a function. The more distant and impersonal corporations become, the more they rely on other people’s faces to connect them to their customers.

Read the piece by Guardian columnist, George Monbiot - “Imaginary Friends.”