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Tiger Woods and Tyranny

If Tiger Woods died today, would you be able to pay your mortgage?  Would your kids still wake up?  Would your dog still love you?  Why care about Tiger Woods?  We care about Tiger Woods because they want us to.Think about how many people are F5'ing the Drudge Report to see what's new with Tiger (we're all on a first-named basis).  Why care?  Because he is a close personal friend and thus his intimate doings are so important to my life?  In fact, he is so close to me that I will be receiving updates from TMZ and Drudge rather than receiving e-mails and texts from Tiger himself? Obsessing over Woods will not strike me as ironic or pathetic, because I've been conditioned to obsess over celebrities. An obsession with celebrity is an outgrowth of the need for mythical figures - which almost always means authority figures! He who worships a movie star today will worship a president or judge tomorrow...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on November 29, 2009 (boomark / email).