Anyone else watch Anderson Cooper on the 5th and hear a loud bang during the Britney Spears segment? Yeah... that was the sound of our minds being blown. Forgive our transcripting skills, but here we go!
Anderson Cooper: It's not like she's in the public eye. She hasn't produced anything of note for years.
Dr. Drew Pinsky: She's famous just for fame's sake.
Anderson Cooper: And then it's like, fame for watching her implode.
Dr. Drew Pinsky: Anderson, I'm writing a book about this right now.
Anderson Cooper: Are you really? It's really disturbing.
Dr. Drew Pinsky: It's disturbing, it's fascinating. It's unique to our time, and there are explanations for it.,
Anderson Cooper: To be honest, we debated even doing this story tonight because it sort of feeds into it, but at the same time, she is a major person and it is a horrible development in her life.
Dr. Drew Pinsky: It is something about us and it is not rational. I think it harkens back to very primitive impulses. As we become kind of primitive in our character constructs -- we don't have a lot of stability in our lives, we don't have a lot of stable family systems -- and we tend to do more primitive things... And one of the things we do is to scapegoat people and act out with envy. And that's kind of what we're doing here. It's almost back -- I'm gonna preview my book here -- back to sort of human sacrifice impulses, where you elevate somebody and sacrifice them. That's kind of what we're doing here.
So, guess Adam Corolla really wasn't the brains behind LoveLine. This theory is awesome! It's like Joseph Campbell crossed with FX's Dirt crossed with the end of Apocalypse Now!
Holy smoke, we might actually read a book this year!