In his 1962 masterpiece “The Image,” in which he introduced the concept of the pseudo-event, Boorstin posited that a celebrity is a “human pseudo-event.” “We try to make our celebrities stand in for the heroes we no longer have, or for those who have been pushed out of our view,” he wrote.” Yet the celebrity is usually nothing greater than a more-publicized version of us.”

Source: Los Angeles Times March 04, 2019 21:22 UTC