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RE: A Meditation on Suicide (& how it affects us all)
I agree only with your last line. Debased cultural values & celebrity-obsessed citizens produce a Trump & Kardashians. Nothing admirable about either, they only exploit our basest instincts.
How can you compare the evils perpetrated by Trump to the vapid entertainments put out by the Kardashians? Our societies have always had vapid entertainments. Even the ancient Greek plays were rife with bawdy plots and vapid humor. Drinking songs and roving troubadours had more base material than enriching. Chaucer’s works were pornographic for their day – translated to modern English, those works are little better today. Even Charles Dickens brought scandal down on his head for his less than stellar moral choices. Our founding fathers were no paragons either. History is rife with the scandals of those whose wisdom we none the less value today.
I despise the entire reality show genre, but I’m not so judgmental and condemning as to dismiss kindness and compassion, or wise words just because I hate the reality show phenomenon. As much as I absolutely loathe Trump, it has never been for his celebrity or reality show success – it is for the poison of his words, his mendacity, and the capricious and cruel agenda he is inflicting upon the world.
We agree to disagree on this. In KK, I also see the banality of evil: greed, lust & a host of viciousness that leads a new gereation astray, morally. I see no point in defending the indefensible & to me she and Trump are 2 sides of the same coin — no wonder they get along so well, together.