You may not care about them. You may think they are shallow, completely irrelevant to your life, or everything you reject, ignore, or refuse to engage with.

But: celebrities are a display of everything society has been conditioned to accept as normal – and when taken all the way, they are sold as the epitome of a successful life.

1.   It’s easier to see unconscious patterns in them than in ourselves. We resist looking at ourselves. But when the same patterns play out in someone famous, it feels safer to look – conditioning, trauma responses, self-destruction, the hunger for validation, the cycle of success and downfall, and so on. These are the patterns we also have – just magnified.

2.   They show what full-scale conditioning looks like when society rewards it. Beauty, greed, aggression, success, power, security. The extreme pursuit of these things is not just accepted but celebrated. They show what happens when unconscious drives are given unlimited resources to grow unchecked.

3.   If we can’t see the pattern in them, we won’t see it in us. Celebrities are like a mirror with high contrast. They expose the mechanics of the unconscious mind in a way that’s impossible to ignore. If we don’t recognize the unbounded version, we definitely won’t catch the ‘restrained’ version playing out in our own lives.

So, if you think celebrities have nothing to do with you, think again.