Lewis Lapham | Domesticated Deities by Lewis Lapham, TomDispatch

: "Label celebrity a consumer society's most precious consumer product, and eventually it becomes the hero with a thousand faces, the packaging of the society's art and politics, the framework of its commerce, and the stuff of its religion. Such a society is the one that America has been attempting to make for itself since John F. Kennedy was king in Camelot, and the collective effort - nearly 50 years of dancing with the stars under the disco balls in Hollywood, Washington, and Wall Street - deserves an appreciation of the historical antecedents."
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