The Royal family, having no longer any political meaning in the twentieth century, reinvented itself as a soap-opera. Thereby, hitting on one of the best marketing strategies ever. Because providing substitute lives, for those who don't have the imagination to get a life, was almost certainly the biggest growth area of the century.

And they will continue to grow rich of those who bother with them , for the foreseeable future.

Absolutely right. If you are watching their TV, listening to or reading their news, you are not doing anything else important in life, your priorities are fucked up and you should get a life.

Two of the most unimportant, immaterial, immature, inconsequential people in my life and should be so to the world.

This is how we make heroes and celebrities. We manage to find lousy people in the world while the real authentic, good people eat dust every day. This is how the billionaire Kim Kardashian was made. That explains who we are. Ancient cultures like China and Iran laugh at what we do.

The US is only rich with money. Not with cultural values. If the economy really tanks and starts struggling, it has nothing to give to the world.

How right you are. It's a media frenzy to create sensational celebrity "news" for the unwashed, unlearned masses.