The Importance Of Worthy Role Models

If you're anything like me you're probably apathetic towards our celebrity culture because we are constantly glorifying the wrong people.

Role models and heroes are a great idea- they encourage us to want to achieve, and they give us hope that our lofty aspirations are actually possible.

There will always a place for actresses, musicians, and athletes- they make our lives brighter after all- but it can't be denied that these are not the people who shape our daily lives, discovering, making, exploring, and generally changing the world for the better. The people who do the really useful, clever stuff, are rarely celebrated in the way that they should be. In truth, I doubt that they care, they have more important things to think about.

Even so, it's unfair; not just to them, but to the general public. Why should we constantly have mediocre individuals thrust in our faces?

Like cows being fed inferior fodder, we grow intellectually fat and lazy, staring ever forward with unthinking stupefied gaze at the gamboling of the fools. It's amusing, in its place, but surely we deserve better?

Wouldn't it be great if we could work towards a well balanced society, where the focus is on honouring and celebrating individuals who really deserve it, rather than encouraging obsessive interest in individuals who are talented in their way, yes, but whom would be of little use to anyone in an Apocalypse...:P

Realistically, only a minute section of society will end up being successful actresses, musicians, or athletes etc., and realistically, if we didn't laud them constantly and publicly, a lot fewer young people would aspire towards these careers anyway.

There are many challenges ahead- energy being perhaps the most pressing- and if we don't put the appreciation and money where it needs to be, with the scientists and their ilk, we'll end up being very well entertained whilst the world falls down around our ears.

By: Aurora Brown

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This is why at Lady Vanguard we'd like to hold regular short interviews with people who are actually doing worthwhile things. They'll be well known and respected within their communities, but most of us probably won't have heard of them- which is an oversight which we can only gain from rectifying. Check out Lady Vanguard to find out more: lady-vanguard.blogspot.com/2011/03/grill-awesome-person.html