Friday, April 27, 2012

Fame Isn't any Whim

By Linda Tapscott


How several folks do you suppose set out to become famous? It is not actually one thing you'll be able to predetermine. It was Andy Warhol who mentioned everyone will be renowned for fifteen minutes. Offered the international population, which is not a realistic expectation as well as the irony is the fact that Warhol is now as renowned for that quotation as he is for painting a can of soup.

It seems to be the quest of modern youth to want about how to become a famous person, but they do not want to work for it. They believe that getting themselves on television will automatically guarantee them fame. Nothing could be further from the truth. There is a surfeit of reality shows on Tv today ranging from TOWIE in the south to Geordie Shore in the north. All populated by young beautiful people chasing a fame they will never achieve. They may become very well known to a couple of million people, and a small percentage of those might want their autograph, but famous they will never be.

Ten years ago the BBC commissioned a poll of the top 100 Greatest Britons, one could easily substitute “famous” for Greatest, and the results would have been very much the same. The most interesting finding was that not one living person featured in the top ten, and Margaret Thatcher was the highest living person at sixteenth. The list included famous Britons from all walks of life and the highest placed celebrity was Michael Crawford at a surprising seventeenth.

If they repeated the method nowadays, how distinct would the outcomes be? Instances have changed; the net has created far beyond anybody’s wildest imagination. We now have hundreds of tv channels, twenty 4 hour news coverage, as well as a media and public with an insatiable appetite for celebrity chat. Magazines spend millions of pounds to orchestrate a celebrity wedding, and newspapers have celebrity hotlines to collect a lot more gossip.

How several folks could let you know who Tim Berners Lee, Francis Crick or Patrick Steptoe is nowadays? Not as several who could determine Robbie Williams, Katie Value, or Wayne Rooney. The distinction right here may be the 1st 3 didn't set out as to how to become famous. Fame came from what they achieved, and as a result of the contribution they've created for the planet we reside in. They are going to nevertheless be renowned in yet another hundred years and when the BBC carries out yet another survey in 3002 Berners Lee, Crick and Steptoe will certainly be on the list.




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