When celebrity entitlement to be
fucked up goes wrong.

Why do people, everything, seem so fucked up?

The Wannabe and the Culture of Entitlement

In light of the numbing waves of protest about this, that, and the other thing I've given a lot of thought to what's behind it all and it comes down to this - we've placed too much of a premium on being a rebel in our culture, on being cool. As the above pic of Nicole Ritchie with her dogs shows we've given too much license to too many fucked up ideas, anything goes, chill - it's all "cool". 
Rebels throughout history such as our founding fathers or William Wallace, Martin Luther, etc.  get put up today as if people openly doing whatever comes to mind are one of them; they're rebels. But what to rebel against? Various writers, songsters, poets and the like can provide clues. That whole loveable bunch of Star Wars characters for example are rebels, even the Whookie and those droids. Less loveable to some of us are stars like Madonna. With her as a guide what 17 year old girl wouldn't want to be a rebel? She's just so cool because the media says she is. It's okay to get dressed up in garters and hose, torn jeans, nose rings no matter how ridiculous you look. You can spout off whether you understand any of it or not. Imitation is the thing. Repeating stuff is important; simply repeat lines already laid out for you. Colleges historically have always been the breeding ground of rebels. Issues get discussed or even passionately argued about and not surprisingly because the influence, for one thing, comes from teachers who also wanted to be rebels. They couldn't be an Albert Camus, but who'd want to, Camus started life impoverished with an unskilled widowed mum who was deaf in one ear.  But by reading Camus they could wear the mantle, seem like him, striding to and fro across the front of the class speaking words like "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion". Honey to a young rebel's ears. "my very existence...unfree world" And so the professor becomes what he wanted to be, a rebel and an Albert Camus to an adoring class of future rebels who also "want to be". And thus, with these last lines we come to the most important aspect of the thing, the "want to be".
Want is an important thing, it's a driving force like hunger. There are generations of young people who grew up wanting to be more than what they were, but only if it came as easily as getting the folks to spring for college tuition. Being a rebel has become attractive. You start young and tell your parents to shove off, even before you'd got a couple bucks off them and left the poor souls guessing whether you'd be home for dinner. Those parents or grandparents by the way may have lived through the depression, fought a world war against implacable enemies and settled in to give their kids everything they never had only to end up with resentful know it all kids who'd grow up to raise a generation of resentful lazy know it all kids. Anyway...rebels to some are attractive, cool. Bob Dylan was skinny, homely but - he was attractive for what he'd created. Rock music, always associated with rebelliousness had a poet laureate in Bob Dylan and suddenly Rock for a time had intellect and a cast of smart meaningful people like Joan Baez and Buffy St. Marie. There were movies about rebels. People to this day still idolise James Dean, his posters still sell even though - in my view, he was mediocre with a tendency to over acting, forcing the role. But I'm moving away from an important point here - want. 
The driving force in all this is want, the want to be cool, the want to be a rebel, an individual, even though crowds of "individuals" today just all look the same in their rebellious get ups and tattoos. It all became so patently obvious and so "wanting" got a new expression famously and perfectly expressed in black American culture; the Wannabe. The "wannabe" was born, entering  into the modern lexicon to perfectly define what most rebellious youth are about. Rebels today are wannabes. There's no shortage of causes; the left has seen to that even though they're all eerily similar. You can be a rebel, just stay up on the latest trends like picking apart the lyrics in a song written well over 60 years ago and classifying it as either "racist" or "sexist". These two classifications are important if not thoroughly and overly  mis-used; they form the foundation of just about every protest. Racism gets brought up, flung out so much these days one feels the need to puke. But how has it become so prevalent in every accusation against society? Well, just think, no one has actually seen a ghost but they're still with us, people still look for them. And so it is with racism which was dying a slow death until it was resuscitated and, as Thomas Sowell so aptly points out - racism simply got "put under new management". And so the wannabe rebel doesn't have to give much thought to being a rebel, they only have to want to be, wannabe noticed, wannabe cool, wannabe part of something. 
Take the phenomenon of Colin Kaepernick - he wannabe a football quarterback but he had one tendency, the tendency to choke so he got side lined. But sitting on the bench gave him time to think, "what am I going to do"? In truth he may not come up with this on his own but rather was influenced by his girl friend, a college radical. But what he did was attract attention to himself by protesting something he'd neither experienced or actually knew or had ever had an opinion about previously; it was simply convenient. If you can get black people to burn their city over the shooting of a black thug you can get football players to kneel during the Anthem. And so they copied Colin protesting one of the nation's symbols. Kind of dumb when you think about it. I mean the flag, our cultural symbols, our laws and Constitution did not symbolise racism, in fact, it's always been the opposite. Not for nothing do we have as our cultural heritage lines like "All men are created equal". People have rights though others may try to deny them but in the end those rights cannot be denied. I think if anything the football players and other black groups  should protest the Democratic party and if they must tear down Confederate symbols then they ought to  tear that down as well. Sadly rebellion while attractive doesn't require intimate knowledge or discipline - just a loud mouth and a mind empty enough to fill with as much stupidity as can be found. That is the hallmark of wannabes - stupidity.