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I'm brimming with glee with the fact that Paris is in jail right now.
I know I'm probably projecting a lot on this little victim of her own chosen circumstance, but she is the archetype of unearned privilege and entitlement, and as such, a legitimate target of my loathing.
She epitomizes the inequity of treatment between rich and poor with regard to the legal system.
Her attitude is one of knowing that no matter what she does, she will suffer little consequences, legal or otherwise, because daddy's checkbook solves everything.
Celebrity can be achieved simply by having a lot of money and being notorious. You don't actually have to possess talent or skill.
A generation can emulate and allow itself to be defined by the role models they find in their famous membership. Paris is helping to convince yet another group of impressionable youths that beauty and a silver spoon lodged in the gob begets special privilege. If you have these, why do anything important or constructive?
She encourages the attitude that you don't have to be behave in any socially acceptable manner if you've got bucks enough to afford the appetites of an entourage of sycophants willing to come to your defense.
In short, her attitude SUCKS.
That little creep's never done a day's work in her life (without the explicit intention of fucking it up on The Simple Life) and neither have any of her cabal of equally overprivileged, silly, plasticine, vacuous little douchenozzles posing as her friends. While I don't begrudge her the obvious benefit of being born into a family of obscene privilege, I do begrudge her what she's done with it. I also fault her parents for the indulgence in her behavior which obviously leads to her present predicament. If you teach someone that all you have to do is call mommy and daddy every time you get into trouble, can you really expect them to ever behave with an ounce of class or responsibility?
And call it Schadenfreude if you like, but I love it when a person who thinks themselves above responsibility and therefore reproach gets a reality check like this.
I know it's probably pie-in-the-sky wishing, but maybe this little DUI stint she's doing will at least give her the impetus to think about what she did and how mom and dad couldn't get her out of it, and maybe, just maybe, her attitude will change a bit.
I'm not holding my breath, though.
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