I agree that celebrities are hardly all or even mostly enlightened beings. They face special temptations to delude themselves, to assuage their guilt, for instance, of feeling like impostors due to the inevitable luck factor that sets them apart.

My point was that their social position also imposes on them special evidence of life's absurdity, so that they're poised to see through certain delusions, too. How they channel that recognition or whether they're inclined to confront the truth is obviously dependent on lots of factors.

Is this just wishful thinking on my part? No, I think there's a real comparison to be made between marginalized counterculturalists and celebrities. Both are alienated from the mainstream; hence, both aren't as confined by the mass delusions. Both have a chance, then, to confront inhuman reality head on.

But I agree that myths and games are needed to style the existential truth.