There was some video I was watching about Steve Jobs' death and someone posted a comment about how "everyone is so sad about Steve Jobs' death but no one seem to think about the women and children enslaved in factories to make the merch we love so much." I think this is a little unnecessary. How come every time a celebrity dies someone needs to bring of the problems with an industrialized/first world society and juxtapose it to the conversation? I don't get it.
Anyway, the reason I'm bringing this up at all is because the way that I found out about his death was someone posted a picture of the comedian that plays the PC is those commercials and made a caption that said, "I'm a PC and I didn't die of cancer."
It's not like jaded, bad jokes about celebrities dying right after they die is a new thing. But still, that's how I FOUND OUT that Steve Jobs died.
Really guys? I find this troubling. I mean, I know there's this problem that every time a celebrity dies they get way more news coverage than say, a mass killing somewhere else in the world. But still, I worry about this intense level of cynicism. I don't think it's healthy. It's hard to afford a lot of sympathy for celebrity deaths. Celebrities die all the time, people die all the time, it's just nature. It's not like we have to have a moment of silence every time a celebrity dies, but I feel like there needs to be something difference about the way we approach this.
I guess I just feel like it's a short step from making a PC vs. Mac jokes when Jobs bites it to making jokes about civilians getting killed in war or something. But I suppose that all ready happens.
Anyway, I was wondering what you guys thought about this because my feelings are so mixed.
