They want us to be all caught up and emotional about celebrities to keep the population distracted from real issues that are having an effect on them
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They want us to be all caught up and emotional about celebrities to keep the population distracted from real issues that are having an effect on them
Salty, being sad over a celebrity's death is normal. Mourning someone's who's inspired you isn't a conspiracy. The reason any celebrity death is on the news is because it is in fact part of the news. Celebrity deaths sell better, people don't want to hear about children they don't know are dying simply because they don't care, or don't want to see the suffering. News of children starving aren't in the news because it happens everyday, do you realize how even MORE dull and boring the news would be if they announced every single person who died everyday? I don't think you would because you'd call it a conspiracy either way.
I don't think I'd ever really "truly" "grieve" over a celebrity....
If they live in such terrible conditions it's because they didn't work hard enough to improve their conditions. Helping them would mean rewarding their laziness. If they want my sympathy, they need to earn it like Whitney Housten did.
We don't owe them anything. They were the ones that let us colonize them in the first place. They were the ones that couldn't develop fast enough and improve their technology and infrastructure to a level defensible against exploitation. They deserve to be exploited. I don't even see why we ended the slave trade. It was a perfectly legitimate business. Still is. Millions of people disappear every day to be trafficked in sex trade and I applaud that.
I grieve when somebody that could have contributed greatly to the world dies. Whitney Houston wasn't that.
I'll probably be sad when Dylan dies but for the most part, I grieve for scientists and the like.
As far as all the dying children goes, grieving for them is pointless unless it does something to prevent the situation from happening again. Otherwise it's just to make yourself feel like you care.
I honestly would care about all the children in 3rd world countries dying if I could do anything about it.
I realise I have basically no ability to help any of them. It's been suggested that giving to charities generally only makes the situation worse. I'll have to look in to it more, but I
may even stop my monthly donations soon.
If I could help them build up their society technologically and educate them and give them healthcare or simply get other countries out of their country, I would.
But because I can't it feels like an unnecessary burden to grieve for them or worry about them at all.
As for celebrities, I don't give a fuck. As philstoned said, if it's Dylan or someone I really think can help humans see some truth or improve our situation etc. then yes I would.
But that's mostly because we will have lost a voice of reason, an opportunity to improve, forever.
I wouldn't even grieve for Dylan, though I would give him a proper send-off on facebook and so forth. As for other achievers, I would remember their contribution and give them proper respect for it, but I wouldn't really grieve. I mostly reserve my grief for people in my life that I am attached to like friends and family. And for billionaire capitalists because they've earned it.
^^^ Making me laugh.
I feel sad that people suffer, but unless it is shoved in my face, I rarely think about the conditions of people around the world. Still, dying and suffering children make me cry. It's a parent thing.
I would mourn the loss of Captain Kirk and Mister Spock.
i vote neither. it hard for me to see one persons life as more important then anothers. and i don't see death itself as something negative.
"Grievance" is a relative term.
I 'grieved' for my father, when he died, but I didn't shed many tears. I 'grieve' for the continuous deaths of countless children in 3rd world countries, but I understand this to be a global constant, and I'm not about to break down into emotional turmoil over it. I 'grieve' for the deaths of people like Michael Jackson, because I understand the contributions that he has made to humanity in general, but there's no hole in my heart. I 'grieve' for the deaths of certain ideals, because they make me a little less optimistic about society, yet that's the way the cookie crumbles. I 'grieve' for the discontinuations of my favorite works of art/music/entertainment, because they have impacted my life so heavily, and are now gone, but I recognize these things to be gone, so I continue on with my life...
Exactly what kind of 'grievance' are we talking about, in this context?
The chance that a child will grow up to do something truly great is probably close to 1 in a million. In all likelihood they will become a plague on the world and the rest of humanity.
This is true. I try to not buy from unethical (exploitative, environmentally destructive etc.) companies. But I also realise that almost every other person just does not give a single fuck.
Niether. If I don't know em personally, it doesn't affect me and I wouldn't care a single bit.
What reason would I have in grieving for either? Seems like a silly question to me. I will grieve when someone that I love dies, that's about it.
I wouldn't grieve for either.