What Our Fixation On Charlie Sheen Says About Us?

Why do we all pay attention when Charlie Sheen speaks? Of course, if you've not heard of him then that statement doesnt apply to you. But for the general population, while under your breath you deride Sheen as hallucinatory and borderline crazy, truth remains that every time he does something, the world pays attention. He came on twitter and had 60,000 followers before he said even ONE thing. In 24hours, he had a million followers, earning him a place in the Guiness Book of World Records. In less than a week he broke another record by getting over 100million viewers in one ustream broadcast. As Kanye would say, No one man should have all that power. But no matter what we think, truth is, he does have it. And the question is, why?
I have a theory. You are welcome to disagree with it, but the fact is that Charlie Sheen represents and acts out our universal urge to be invincible, to be larger than life. What he does is what we wish we could do: He gets high on his own damn self. You really cant tell him Nothing. Now, people may say he is mentally ill, and a junkie and what not, which may or may not be correct. He certainly does drugs, chief among them the one he calls 'Charlie Sheen' duh. His lifestlye may not be spectacularly awesome, and many of us don't want to emulate him (I hope). But his bad boy aura, his rock solid confidence and his total belief in himself and his total scorn of society is something we all sometimes crave. I know this cos I see blogs, posts, comments by people and what not all screaming how they are impossible to define, and how they dont care what everyone thinks, and fuck society and all. Yet at the end of the day, society bends them into an accepted path, no matter how hard they fight until all they can do to proclaim their so called independence is to blog, or join organisations, or get high. So in the end, we all become that thing we claim we are not, average, normal smart or not so smart people milling around trying to make a living. And to recapture that dopamine high that makes us feel like our lives have some meaning at all, we go to church, or follow sports, or celebrities, or buy flashy cars and have sex. That is, we look for our high externally. By watching people like Sheen be superhuman on our behalf. Having submitted, we gather around the ones who still live like we wish. And when we cannot understand them, we call them jerks. Or crazy. Or evil. Or Sheen.