Xeno's point about corporations fits in with my "celebrity rays",
though I didn't intend it that way....  It's simply true that flash and
buzz sells things, and it takes a sizable amount of cash to 
generate flash.   

Even while we grumble about the culture of celebrity, and claim to 
be Unique Individualists, we see all those flashes and think 
something like this:  "Hmm.  If all those photogs think she's
interesting, maybe I should look into it ... and maybe I should buy
some of her videos."   We just can't help it.  Attention breeds
attention.

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