Paris Hilton may be on the path to enlightenment. At any rate, the dumb bitch was seen coming out of a Buddhist bookstore toting a copy of something by John-Roger, the ex-Mormon who founded the Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness. This comes just days after Hilton was photographed carrying copies of both the Bible and The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. Having never read any of the above books, I can't really say what value they might have for someone like Paris. There's nothing in there about lip-gloss or hair extensions, I'm assuming. Nor is there any advice for people who enjoy collecting miniature animals as though they were knick-knacks.
It's always amused me, this celebrity ploy of being photographed with allegedly significant objects. I think of Lindsay Lohan and her water-bottle - how that was supposed to convince us that she wasn't drinking ("See? Only water."). But this is how these people think; everything is surface effect. Paris now wants us to believe she's been chastened and made a serious person by her recent difficulties. She wants us to think she reads books about spirituality now, and has begun perusing the Bible for help in navigating life's pitfalls. But the books are only accessories to Paris - she's learned the art of projecting a certain persona through clothing and hair and jewelry, and the books are just another part of that. That's all obvious and rather tiresome. What I'm truly curious about is who gave her the idea that she should now go around looking grave to the point of being stricken. When she first got the jail sentence she seemed a bit arrogant - and then that silly Schwarzenegger petition was released, and she seemed foolish and childish for endorsing it. Then, suddenly, her lawyers released a statement saying she understood the gravity of her predicament - at whose behest, I wonder? Someone in her family who was worried she had taken the spoiled little heiress routine too far, and now needed to project some humility? Yes - and what do people do when they wish to appear humbled? Wear more modest clothing? Don a hang-dog expression? Tote the Bible and other books about spirituality and inner-awareness?
Am I being too cynical in thinking that Paris is incapable of true self-awareness? Perhaps. However, I do not buy her present act for a second. It reeks of her particular brand of half-assed calculation, that sense of someone rather dim and only half-cunning attempting a sloppy sort of manipulation with the complicity of her handlers and of course those willing lap-dogs the media. Paris has always been a tease - a charlatan coasting on some unaccountable fascination with her tawdriness and alleged charm. Everything about her is phony - and doubly-so when she's trying to be sincere.
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