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I think about that Eddie Izzard bit a lot lately re: mass death. One death--even a stranger--feels especially personal, a dozen feels beyond our control somehow, and the higher it goes, the more we're unequipped to process it. It becomes just a number for many. Heartbreaking.https://twitter.com/nycsouthpaw/status/1307668885009772546 …
In times of national tragedy, you expect national leadership to help the nation mourn and process through this. But it's missing. We don't have a national leader doing that. Trump would much rather ignore these people existed in the first place.
Trump's whole thing is telling his supporters that it's really not that bad and that the bad parts are the fault of China and Democrats, etc. He's telling them they can feel good and if they don't, blame anyone but him. And with a cult, that works.
Well done....you must get up very early in the morning
An unfortunate coping mechanism
Isn’t that Pol Pot bit where people can’t even fathom so many deaths and just say “well done..you’ve killed 100,000 people?” (Paraphrasing of course)
That's it.
"we're sort of like...well done."
Oh same. Eddie was right. We don’t even know how to process.
You are absolutely right.
I was thinking about that too the other day...his very bleak but truthful observation that we simply don't know how to handle a lot of people dying. What was the line? "Oh, you must get up very early in the morning!" Eddie Izzard is so often right about so many things.
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