A new picture is just emerging. For quite a while now the media have been in love with showing people taking on huge physical feats such as running multiple marathons back to back or other stupid extremes of exercise. These people are held up as examples to us all. They are presented as absolutes or even gods at the pinnacle on human evolution. Or do the media love the idea they are suffering ? Why would I say that ?
The second thing the media are in love with is illness. They revel in reporting anothers disease or terminal condition. It is reported again and again in a god like manner and in an absolute of positiveness oddly. Again a person in turmoil is presented as the ideal and let no man utter anything to the contrary. Just today there was a news report ( and when was this news ? ) that a man was having his 100th radiation session. It was reported in the same way as a man running a 100 marathons in a 100 days would have been presented.
The common denominator here is suffering. The ideal. The reason giver. The beacon we must all dance around. The media are a pleasantly smiling physco sugar coating our suffering. I find it hard to believe they do this unawares and I can accept the first idea is " inspirational " maybe, but they have strayed into spreading this outlook to those with medical problems . And are these people inspirational ? Well not to the majority who are reasonably healthy.....
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