Fame

In this world we live in, we are embedded so deeply into certain systems of perception.

Especially in regards to power.

We think if someone is famous, it is reflective of there value, there power, there wisdom, there intelligence, or there talent.

That the more famous, or viral, someone is, the more power and value they must have.

This could not be farther from the truth.

And the people that realize this, are generally the ones that taste fame and actually learn from it as the profound lesson and paradigm shatterer it is.

In the world we are coming out of, fame has represented a willingness to compromise and bend your authenticity, your true needs, your truest expression, to fit the desires and perspectives of a mass populace, on a spectrum.

Many great artists, great famous people, have seen this predicament.

Have lived it.

They saw that if they wanted to continue to reach the echelons of fame they desired, they would have to continue slowly chipping away at there authenticity.

Some bravely stood against it, Prince is one of them.

And his story is one of battling record labels for years, for his right to his music, and his right to his authenticity.

Often having to sacrifice some of his fame, and his name, in order not to be a slave to it.

Like when he changed his name to the symbol.

Once he got the echelons of fame he so thirsted for, he realized… At what cost do I keep this?

At what cost have I brought myself here?

Many have had this awareness and realization come forward, like Jim Carrey, and Russel Brand, Kanye West.

But of course the media brands them as insane.

Cause the goal is to keep you away from this realization.

Cause if we all realized fame within the constructs of our current and past society, is not a symbol of personal power, but of the lack of it

what would happen?