Oh Honey Boo Boo...

Honey Boo Boo child and suicide make quite the combination, I mean she makes me want to kill myself too. Wait, no. That was wrong, I shouldn't have mocked the very serious and sad suicide of Tony Scott, but as Mitch Alborn wrote humans now  "...don't want to correct people, we would rather mock them. We don't do, we watch." Just as people tune in once a week to watch as a mother drives her child to failure, they stand by and record, but never try to stop, a man committing suicide. Alborn hit the cynical nail on the head, humans wish to feel superior, most don't feel the need to stop destruction, they assume its inevitability and watch as it happens. I don't think this makes us apathetic even though it would seem you would have to be completely indifferent to allow a man to jump off a bridge or watch as destruction happens, but maybe we're just too interested in human failure. Too caught up in the details of how, or why he would even want to jump to ever get to needing to stop him. Every thing is so over analyzed in the world, we are all organism under a microscope, there is no wiggle room for mistakes that will go unseen, every one is watching and calculating. No one can make the front cover of a trash magazine for just getting divorced without telling why. No one seems to ever asks if they're upset only why it happened, the story is so buried in the details that the actual act of the divorce falls into the background.  The world is suppose to end in 2012 and all people can ask is why, but I have yet to hear someone ask how we would stop it. When global warming is discussed we always hear the theories and details of how we caused it and sometimes even how we could put an end to it, but then again the details sweep up and cloud the how and get straight back to the why. The details distract from the big picture; the ending of the world, global warming, a freaky pageant family, or a suicide. We're the opposite of apathetic, we're too involved, to interested to stop anything we'll just see how it plays out.