The Tired Hedonistics

Amy Winehouse went to Rehab, I mean she is hiding out in a five star hotel in London in order to get some rest of a drug overdose. Overdose?!?! I don´t know but it sounds sooo 1968... Why someone who is talented, has success and the possibility to use it to spread out messages for a better world prefers to spend three days taking ecstasy, cocaine and heroine among other things? O.k I´m not that conservative, and everybody knows that drugs exists since the beginning of the world. Drugs come from the nature, the native indians used to smoke marijuana to relax, the same with old chineases smoking Opium, etc. But then came the industrialisation and perverted it all. And all these stupids bought the idea. Whatever, back to Amy, in the past the young stars used to have a cause to struggle for. They spent 5, 10 years doing shit jobs, believing in their art, creating concepts untill they got it. They had something to say, they had Political consciousness, they used to read books. When finally a record label agreed to sign them, they were any "marionettes" anymore. Today anyone make a track, put it out on Myspace, strikes poses at bedrooms, makes photos with a cheap digital camera and - uhuu - a superstar is born! No need to read books since the blogs are there for. No need to struggle too much since everything is easier nowadays and it´s somehow "unsexy" and kind of waste of time to struggle for something. Better do the shit as quick as posible, spread it out in Myspace, sign the first contract with some record label, pose for cool pictures at professional studios, let people manipulate them and... yeah,a superstar is born! Even if they have absolutely nothing to say. No matter if the ozon layer is growing up every day, no matter if the next US president still insist to say that US needs to take up another country in the middle east (and obviously kill more innocents there and make some of them into the next future terrorists), no matter if nobody still didn´t find a heal for Aids, no matter if there are tons of people starving far away from Europe and US, no matter if these starving people are dieing because some people use them and divert the funds from ONGS to their swiss privite bank accounts for example, no matter if there are lot´s of people who really have something to say and have not the chance to be listened, no matter if there are people really talented and with something to say besides "i d´ont want to go to rehab" when indeed they need, nothing doesn´t matter. This is not their problens. But if they would knew themselves better at least, we could at least take them seriously! We could listen to their songs and think: "I feel better now" or "now I got it". But how can you feel better nor understand someone who sings "I d´ont want to go rehab" when you read that this person is a self-destructive human being ? If they´d believe in their own lyrics as the hip-hop stars use to do with the ideia of a "glamourous life", we could call them as authentics at least. But in this case it seems is all about a "white trash" way of life, whose clear message is something like: "do what I say, but d´ont do what do." From this perspective and only from this one it all makes sense indeed...