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Originally Posted by Manhattanboy
Celebrity/fame is a funny aspect of our culture.
Everything about Kobe Bryant and his daughter because he happened to excel at basketball. "Tonight is for Kobe" was the mantra of the Grammys.
I appreciate its early and for privacy reasons there has not been much coverage of the others who died, but their lives are reduced to footnotes in this tragedy.
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You're not looking at it properly - Their lives were reduced to footnotes due to being one of 7 billion regular, non-celebrity persons on earth. They just happened to be on a helicopter with a legendary athlete.
Look at this way - Are you complaining that thousands of car accident/small aircraft victims are footnotes across the world that died on the same day? Of course not. Which proves that if anything, the victims of this helicopter crash arguably had more exposure and sadness attributed to their deaths than most people on earth by being on the same helicopter.
If you have a problem with civilization's elevation of famous citizens status to god-like status then your issue doesn't lie with civilization or media so much as the human mind, and if you can find a way to change that, please let everyone else know.
