This is a response to warpus's post in the Prince thread. It gets a bit ranty, so I felt this would be a more appropriate place for it.
1. Support the war or not, those men and women are still the protectors of your nation. They still volunteered to defend you and your family so you don't have to worry about doing it yourself.
2. Soldiers die only once too.
3. I've said this before, but when people come out to respect soldiers, they only do it because they feel an obligation to. Basically, they do it because they feel they have to. With celebrities though, people express genuine anguish like they knew the person personally, or they mourn them as if they were some great national hero.
4. I just don't buy that whole forming bonds with people you've never met. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I just think those that form these bonds with celebrities have what I would call an unhealthy grasp on reality.
5. That is part of the problem.
6. People are losing their minds. Whenever they show these gatherings of people mourning him, I'm seeing all these people wailing and crying like their kids just got murdered in front of them. Now, maybe people are just hamming it up for the cameras, but it's still ridiculous. With the way people are acting over this, you'd think Obama just got assassinated or something.
I just want to make it clear though, that I'm not saying anything against Prince himself, I'm just saying society has it's priorities all out of whack. It's also moments like this that remind me what they told us in the Army was true. They told us the day would come when we couldn't serve anymore and we'd have to go back into the civilian world. They told us that when that day comes to stick close to those we served with and help each other out as much as we can. They told us civilians don't care about us and they don't care about everything we do for them. I thought it was just a bunch of crap at the time, a scare tactic to convince people to reenlist; but the longer I'm out of the military, the more I realize everything they told us about the civilian world is true.
1. A lot of people do not support that war to begin with
2. Soldiers die, it's a part of their profession, it happens on a regular basis. Prince only dies once.
3. People DO respect dead soldiers, the last time Canadians were killed in combat a lot of people came out to respect them and their families.
4. Artists and musicians help us learn more about ourselves, we develop bonds with them even though we will never meet most or any of them in real life
5. Nobody knows who Sargeant J. Simpson is, but everyone knows who Prince is
6. Nobody's losing their minds, people are just honouring a memorable artist who inspired many
1. Support the war or not, those men and women are still the protectors of your nation. They still volunteered to defend you and your family so you don't have to worry about doing it yourself.
2. Soldiers die only once too.
3. I've said this before, but when people come out to respect soldiers, they only do it because they feel an obligation to. Basically, they do it because they feel they have to. With celebrities though, people express genuine anguish like they knew the person personally, or they mourn them as if they were some great national hero.
4. I just don't buy that whole forming bonds with people you've never met. I'm not saying it doesn't happen, I just think those that form these bonds with celebrities have what I would call an unhealthy grasp on reality.
5. That is part of the problem.
6. People are losing their minds. Whenever they show these gatherings of people mourning him, I'm seeing all these people wailing and crying like their kids just got murdered in front of them. Now, maybe people are just hamming it up for the cameras, but it's still ridiculous. With the way people are acting over this, you'd think Obama just got assassinated or something.
I just want to make it clear though, that I'm not saying anything against Prince himself, I'm just saying society has it's priorities all out of whack. It's also moments like this that remind me what they told us in the Army was true. They told us the day would come when we couldn't serve anymore and we'd have to go back into the civilian world. They told us that when that day comes to stick close to those we served with and help each other out as much as we can. They told us civilians don't care about us and they don't care about everything we do for them. I thought it was just a bunch of crap at the time, a scare tactic to convince people to reenlist; but the longer I'm out of the military, the more I realize everything they told us about the civilian world is true.