The deed is done. So mehow, our glorious dream has been trivialized. Somehow, we botched it. But wait . . . The technology did it.
Celebrity is a natural and inevitable consequence of amplified or highly distributed information.
You take actors, authors, musicians, politicians or athletes . . . That's all there is to it. And yet, as all the children's stories correctly warn us, one needs to be careful with genies, because they are notorious for refusing to return to the bottles from which they were freed. And because, once freed, genies tend to take charge. The genie we know as information technology has often allowed the extension of Man to become the glorification of some particular man or woman.