If there are 8 billion people on the planet, it is statistically impossible for everyone to be famous. Regardless of talent and time, everyone has a limited attention span, and it becomes impossible to offer enough of the attention that celebrity warrants. The sad part is that getting jobs or other opportunities requires that people be both remembered and desired, and fewer and fewer people are managing both of those requirements. My hope is that with the collapse of the empire, it will become possible for people to once again be nobody and still survive.
Doing multiple toxic things to gain attention is a terrible way for people to spend their time. Whether constantly managing family optics or pretending that everyone can look perfect 24/7, there is no way to capture attention other than doing anything outside of the ordinary. People have been killed in stunts, permanently ruined relationships, or destroyed their careers simply by trying to get attention to get the income to survive. In fact, even though some rich people have enough to live a thousand lifetimes, they still say toxic things to garner attention because they enjoy the power their behavior has on the attention of others.
Furthermore, toxic times are coming, and there will be no stopping them thanks to the inability of the wealthy to limit themselves for the greater good. The most important thing anyone can do at this time is to learn to regulate their emotions and figure out the people they can gather with to weather the storms. No one will be interested in having their heart rate intensify by someone doing parkour or dramatic fights in public because they will be too busy hoping that the food will last for another month. Paying attention to fools is a terrible survival idea, and more people will be figuring out how to stop doing that.
So many people were raised on positive affirmation toxicity, and encouraging them to discard that mindset will be hard for anyone to achieve. However, people will simply have to stop believing that they will all one day be famous because that lifestyle is fading faster than the water supply in Arizona. We need to start developing local lifestyles that allow people to be nobody and still manage to be part of a support system. Clinging to the old ways will start costing people their lives if they fail to adapt.
Chasing A Dying Empire 