prompt Fame corrupts the soul

Many of the heroes who joined the gods at Mount Olympus found themselves distant from their human neighbors who once loved them. A certain aura of fear and venerability follows them. Like these classical demigods, celebrities today become removed from the rest of the human population as if the fame they earned had replaced some invisible bonds that held them to their old friends. It may appear that fame delivers power or shallowness to its bearer, but instead it takes it. Fame is a chain on human instinct and is a mask on human profoundness.
In the state of fame, individuals are constantly watched, and thus constantly denying their true selves. Most people usually have time alone to belch or scratch in ways that appear less-than-beautiful. But celebrities do not. Instead they are confined to social standards set for them. In the myth of Gyges, one can see that people act differently in different situations according to who is viewing them. Celebrities do not have the chance to unleash their primal instincts in solitary meditation nor do they have a magic ring that turns them invisible. There are some exceptions. Lady Gaga is an interesting case. Through a primary analysis of her external character, one can see that she is well suited for fame even naturally. She, like many other celebrities, is a performer and is trained for an audience. In an interview, she revealed that the most important parts of her life are writing, loving, and wearing fashion. Writing, referring mostly to her work as a musician, and fashion both imply that she is very much a natural celebrity. Loving, as an emotional experience, shows she is human. As a physical experience, it is simply one of the additional parts of celebrity life. For most celebrities, however, as demonstrated by their more human apparel, show proclivity towards normal human society, but may commit strange acts given their circumstances.
Celebrities are then not capable of having such a profound impact on the lives around them. There are only so many minutes in life, and the way celebrities have to stretch those minutes over many people and "lives" they live means that they cannot develop real relationships with the other people around them or live entwined lives. The Peanuts comic artist Charles M. Schulz once argued that celebrities do not actually mean that much to all people. Even if the last Olympic champions accomplished more than some of our closest friends, they never did us any sort of favor or anything. Their accomplishments on the screen were promptly forgotten. This is similar to the "15 minutes of fame" proposed by Andy Warhol. The short duration of fame he refers to explains how the media just catches something, looks at it, and grows bored and moves on. People will never grow bored of a good deed done to them. Just as Jesus cautioned his disciples not to go preach as the hypocrites do, making a public show of things, he understood the way in which his disciples could be remembered for character, not rhetoric. The fact that celebrities are capable of being "deep" is not to be disputed. Indeed, they too are human, they just might not have the time for it.
Fame tends to come with money, but not necessarily power. Celebrities, in most cases, are not simply corrupt. They simply act in accordance to the conditions imposed on them, being a lack of space and a lack of time. Certainly, they give us reason to envy them, but we might really want to reconsider if a magic lamp were in our hands. If Mount Olympus had a toll booth, the currency it accepted would not be in souls, but probably devotion.