Well, it’s over. In LA we move quickly from one big event to another.

Does anyone remember the Lakers won the the world championship a couple of weeks ago?

The response to Michael Jackson’s death is not unexpected. He was a cultural phenomena. Who else could have his first #1 hit be a love song to a rat?

So, how do you explain all that has been going on in the aftermath of this tragic death? I am reminded once again of the “cult of celebrity.”

Philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), explains what is going on in our human condition.

What else does this craving, and this helplessness, proclaim but that there was once in man a true happiness, of which all that now remains is the empty print and trace? This he tries in vain to fill with everything around him, seeking in things that are not there the help he cannot find in those that are, though none can help, since this infinite abyss can be filled only with an infinite and immutable object; in other words by God himself.

Pondering Pascal today, and what this says about celebrity…

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