joaquin phoenix and the futility of celebrity

So as I watch Joaquin Phoenix make more and more of an ass of himself, and reality TV incresingly demonstrate the ridiculousness and irrelevance of celebrities...it becomes increasingly clear that celebrity status is going to the masses. Facebook, ning.com, google etc. allow each of us to decide who is a celebrity, and we are becoming more and more interested in our personal friends, and less and less interested in the "big stars", except for when they go to jail, overdose, or unexpectedly lose an article of clothing. I hope one day we can see them for what they are...regular people who act for a living, and beyond that, not particularly interesting.

(with all due respect to Mr. Phoenix, and the celebrity community of course, many of whom I count as dear friends)