Well, the Oscars are over, the Grammys are over and it's already started. We put 'em up there. Now it's time to knock 'em off. Just watch. It happens every year.
What is it with our country this penchant to lift these people up onto the world pedestal, usually because of their good work, and then as soon as they're up there, we do everything we can to pull 'em back down?
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It's an American tradition - and not a very pleasant one. Is it jealousy on our parts? Is it that once up there most people don't know how to handle it and so they sabotage themselves? Is it the press and their ever-growing need for drama whether it's truthful or not? Or is it just that once up there, you get your 15 minutes and then it's time to get off?
Probably all of the above.
Sadly, on our end, I think it's a weird kind of perverted jealousy that we display when we, usually as fans, finally see our hopes personified up there, they just don't look as good as we thought they should have, so we're instantly disappointed and lose faith. Turns out they're human after all and after they played that great role in that movie, when they did their acceptance speech at the Oscars, their ego spilled out all over the stage and they just weren't a heroic or noble as they were in that award-winning film.
In real life they just weren't quite the person that they were in that scripted movie. This is not their fault; this is ours. We make gods out of these people and then are crushed when they turn out to be human beings. How dumb is that on our part? Sometimes we get what we deserve.
Source: Christian Post
