Mark Rowlands has a new book out called Fame. I liked this sentence from the sumary he posted to Secular Philosophy:
I try to show that our present day notion of fame and the extremes that accompany it are symptoms of a significant cultural change: the decline of Enlightenment ideas has seen individualism eclipse objectivism about value, so much so that what characterizes Western society today is its constitutional inability to distinguish quality from bullshit.
It’s $18.95 for a 160 page paperback, but I imagine that I should focus on the quality rather than the quantity. (On the other hand, the first chapter is entitled “Girls gone wild: fame and vfame”. NSFW?)