Being very materialistic too,grabbing all the expensive "Toys",Cars,house,boats,maybe an airplane,but it matters not,we all one day will have our last day or night,I suppose the best way to go is in your sleep,then no heroic efforts to keep you alive......

Oi, you kids. Humans are exactly the same as they've ever been. This is nothing new, you've only just caught on.

I don't see how the modern world is substantively different in terms of worshiping celebrity. Hollywood has been around for over a hundred years now, for example.

Sometimes I think we get older and wiser and therefore more observant and we just see the emptiness and perfidy beneath the surface, and think something other than our own perceptions has actually changed. Because it's easier to accept that things are going to hell rather than that they've always been hell, and worse, we didn't recognize it until now.

Of course some things have changed; we've definitely become less ideologically homogeneous and even more ideologically polarized since the 1980s, for example. But even that is the result of a good development, which is that people are disassociating from religion and that just creates the problem that we've got to settle on an alternative social "glue" and come to understand our common humanity apart from some specious concept of "good" vs "sinful".

I’m almost 50 years old and I can tell you that I’ve witnessed a change from when having respect for who you were and whatever your talents were as well as having substance has fallen away.

And has sadly been replaced with wealth and controversy. And I say controversy because that has become the new fame. It’s no longer are you skilled or inspiring but instead are you shameless and willing to sacrifice your own image for money and acknowledgement.

So yeah I definitely get what you’re saying and there are those behind this ideology that for some don’t want us to have leaders or at least people who are worth following.
But unless there’s a great awakening amongst our society it might just eventually be unlawful to be one of those people.

The high & mighty might Think they are "adored", but only while they are "on top" and they know it! Not a choice i would make

"People were famous for being loved and adored" - but that only happened because they had acquired fame first. One thing feeds the other when the person who has acquired fame does something positive with it.

That still happens but not so often as it did. People worship money and power, unfortunately.