WOULD YOU LIKE TO BECOME FAMOUS?
I’m not a philosopher, but sometimes I like to meditate on different things and write something like an essay. Today I would like to speak about fame. When we speak about films and actors we often use this word.
I wish to start with my answer to the question: “What people can be famous or notorious for?” I consider this question as a very difficult one, because we should mention a lot of fields, in which people can reveal themselves. I get the impression that these fields determine qualities that famous or notorious people usually posses. For example people, who have become famous in the sphere of science, are very clever, talented, educated and responsible, I must admit that fame is a serious responsibility for such people. And as for notorious people, I think it will be more illustrative to say about people, who have revealed themselves in the sphere of show business, because they usually posses almost opposite qualities: they are not obliged to be modest and to have genius brain and good manners. Especially it concerns to people which become famous for 15 minutes. I quite agree with the opinion, that the extravagant behavior of such people can draw the attention of great amount of people, but only for little time. . But I must say that there are some fitches as persistence, purposefulness and bravery, which are typical, both for famous and notorious people.
And now I’m going to define how people can become famous. Some people suggest that when people succeed that is because of hard work; luck has nothing to do with success. In order to comment this suggestion I’d like to say two more statements. The first: «Life is a sequence of accidents; therefore people are only victims of Her Majesty of Destiny» and the second: «A person is the smith of his happiness». As for me I can agree completely with none of these statements. I think that the person himself chooses his road to the future, but he should make this choice at right time and in a right place. And only then he will be able to achieve success in his life. It means that hard work plus good luck is the formula of our success. For example one of the richest people in the world Bill Gates proposed his new computer program and achieved success not only due to his original idea but also because of suitable situation on the software market.
I also would like to speak about different disputable questions that connected with the life of celebrities. First of all it’s their high wages. In fact, some famous athletes and entertainers earn millions of dollars every year. Some people maintain that that it’s unfairly, but others say that entertainers such as actors, singers and comedians contribute as much to society as professionals such as doctors, engineers and teachers do. Economics states, quite rightly, that people of the certain profession receive this or that sum of money not because of they deserve it from the moral point of view, but because of their work was appreciated by this sum. So, from the point of view of economics, these people quite deserve their high wages. However as for the moral aspect of this question, I suppose that, it would be unfair to speak, that stars have no rights to earn such sums. When we speak about the salary of actors, singers and comedians, we should notice, that they receive so much money because their work is important for society. It is possible, that certain actor, singer or comedian does not represent big value for each of us as our family doctor, for example. However the same actor, singer or comedian “serves” thousand people while our doctor is able to work only with several families. No doubt that stars influence emotions of thousands of people of over the globe and deprive themselves the right of private life (by the way, to my mind, it’s one of the most significant cons of these professions ). And that is why it seems to me that such high salaries completely justified to the contributions.
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Yours sincerely,
AlexSandra