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Originally Posted by TheSutterDynasty
What makes you say it's "how our brains are wired"?
Call me selfish but when a famous musician recently died I thought, "damn, now I don't get more of their good music" and really thought nothing else of it.
I think a large part of it is that people want to be part of something. Like the Humboldt tragedy. Or the ALS bucket challenge. An unreasonable amount of money was donated to those because of the 'popular' nature of them when there are millions of equally deserving recipients of those funds that don't get a cent. While there are obviously benefits I think it's a really stupid part of culture these days.
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The reasoning for it may be a little stupid (because often nobody actually knows the celeb personally) but the inherent desire to want to come together with people in a way that transcends the usual differences isn't stupid at all. It's in our nature. Maybe we're grasping for legitimate reasons to do so without realizing it, or just experiencing a sense of empathy from a distance in a way, but maybe tragedies like these are serving as reminders of how much we separate ourselves from our fellow man when we are taking such things as life and our overall well being here for granted. We're all cut from the same cloth and when a life is taken we remember that again, and that is the positive you can draw from ####y and sad things like this.
So yeah I think it is about wanting to be a part of something, and in these cases it is humanity bonding through humanity.