I can't be the only one tired of seeing the internet so liberally splashed with stories about Jeff Bezos and his long-time squeeze Lauren Sánchez finally getting hitched. One can't swing a virtual cat on the internets today without hitting a story about Bezos basically leasing Venice for the wedding, about the apparently cantalope-sized diamond he gave his bride, or about the parade of celebrities in attendance - many of them peripatetic climate scolds, like Bezos himself, who brought their private jets and mega-yachts to the affair.
I mean, even Fox Business, not really known as a site that fawns over celebrities, has given in to the craze.
Mike Fried, CEO of The Diamond Pro, told FOX Business the sparkling gem "appears to be close to 30 carats" based on photos he has seen.
"Pink diamonds are incredibly rare, among the rarest in the world," he said. "For a number of years, pink diamonds were found in the Argyle mines in western Australia, but they’ve since closed those mines. It is jaw-dropping to see a pink diamond of that size."
The diamond’s shape is cushion-cut.
OK, and therefore, what? Other than pointing out Bezos' unapologetic hypocrisy for calling out the need to cut carbon emissions while bopping around the world on his private jet, why is this news?
Now, while Jeff Bezos, co-founder of Amazon and owner of the (liberal) Washington Post, pops up in our reporting here, I'm gratified to see we haven't written much about his wedding, which just cements RedState's status as a real news site. But the internet has blown up, covering every possible angle on this, from Lauren Sánchez's dress to Bezos' choice of toothpaste for the big day.
It's all just a bit ridiculous. So, you might ask, why am I giving it more bandwidth here? Here's why, and I'm going to tell you.
There's an issue here, a societal issue that has to do with the ever-increasing trend towards celebrity worship. Bezos, I will admit, is at least an entrepreneur with a list of accomplishments under his belt. We may not like his politics, but he has at least done some things; Amazon literally changed the way people buy things, and in places like our little rural Alaska community, the effect has been enormous. But too many of our "celebrity class" consists of people with more teeth than IQ points, and yet a fair portion of the internet is dedicated to covering every aspect of these people's lives.
Sure, some of these folks have real talent. There are some great singers, actors, and so on out there, who actually do fulfill a valuable purpose; they entertain us, they allow us to slip away from the troubles of the real world for a few minutes or a few hours, to listen to some music, to watch an entertaining movie. But talent and brains don't necessarily go together, and these people shouldn't be looked to for their opinions on issues of the day, or anything else.
With a few exceptions, these aren't people we should be idolizing, or even taking seriously beyond the entertaining aspects of their various talents. But celebrity worship in the Western world has attained truly ludicrous proportions, and it's small wonder some political plotters in places like Moscow and Beijing don't take the U.S. and Europe seriously. And they're not wrong to do so; people who engage in this mindless celebrity worship are no more serious than the vapid, clueless glitterati they follow so closely.
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And this Saturday morning, I see that this news cycle is still consumed with recent events in Venice. So, Jeff Bezos got married. So, the world's wealthiest hypocrites gathered to watch.
So what?
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