Isn't it interesting?

Isn't it interesting how much we've degenerated as people? As a society? Being on of the many born with the internet, I have no idea what my parents are talking about when they mention "the good old days." Of course, I understand, but I am unable to envision a world where children gathered around the radio for their favorite broadcast and the coolest way for them to communicate was with two cans and a piece of string. I was watching TMZ today, much to my distaste (my mother is the one watching it, really) and I thought to myself "why are we spending so much of our lives focusing on another's? The commonfolk go to such great lengths to expose every little detail of these people's lives. "Brad Pitt goes shopping! He buys diapers just like the rest of us!" It's to these lengths where people actually call it entertainment that sicken me. In this, I believe, that our society is most pathetic. Although it's not just about "celebrities", it's about advertising and consumerism as we know it. Isn't it interesting how we spend so much time and money trying to look like these famous people? Why? Because they're beautiful? Who says they're beautiful? Who says that you're not beautiful enough, and you need a product to be as beautiful as these "beautiful" people? We will never be as good as these people because they are no better than us. There are people making millions trying to figure out what you people think is beautiful, and how to convince you that their image of beauty is the only one. Shouldn't the decision of what's cool and beautiful be made by the general public? It shouldn't be made by an old fart sitting behind a desk making millions, that's for sure...I guess we are imitators by nature now, and our individual thoughts are meshed together into one gray mass that will buy anything that the celebrities shove down our throats. The most depressing thing is that, although I believe these things, I'm still a part of that big gray blob. This outburst of random thought is scratching the surface of something much deeper than I can fathom. We're all part of a herd, just being fattened up for profit, and there isn't a damn thing any of us can do about it