Celebrity

So why do people become infatuated with celebrities? What would cause a normally sane, rational person to become a blithering idiot when next to an actor, or athlete. They get paid for pretending, or for playing a game.

How many people are reducing to jello by standing next to a pediatric or heart surgeon? Someone who can hold a heart in his hands and fix it? To, with god's help, give life to someone who may be near the end.