If you don't know me by now.

I'm very tired of living in a society in which celebrity status is handed out to any Tom, Dick or Sally who has been chosen for the newest hit reality tv show. It seems real achievement is now drowned out by the monotonous drone of post modernism. I think one day we will look up at these pedastools and almost revolutionarily decide to de-throne those who we see splashed all over todays headlines. Sometimes it just dissapoints me to see someone put in the public eye for being the younger sibling/ best friend of a 'celebrity' who has not really achieved much in their own career. Now as we wave goodbye to culture and hello to idols who fall somewhere short of heroic I think we should perhaps look back to the heroes of the past to understand what real talent is. Dickens, Joyce, Wilde, Shakespeare these names jump out for a reason and ooze talent with every syllable the very mention of their names in recent times is unlikely to cause a stir, but in a generation in which more people know of Jade Goody than Ranulph Fiennes it is hardly surprising. For me even now it is all about WHAT you know and not who you know, it is about who you are and what you have achieved, I will not bow down to this society built on false admiration. Maybe one day people will wake up and realise their children should not be watching Big Brother, they should be reading Lewis Carroll, until then I guess we just have to hold on to the past and the real idols, I think we all owe ourselves this.