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About LinkBacksEh? Based on what?Originally Posted by LordJagged
Eh? Based on what?
How could Heisenberg be sure that Schroedinger had a cat?
He merely gave others the inspiration and the courage to do so, which is hardly worth the mention.
Although there was little exposure (in this media circus) to anything approaching art, entertainment can provide catharsis and people felt free to let their emotions go because the pope was dead.Web definitions for Catharsis
The release or purging of unwanted emotions — specifically fear and pity — brought about by exposure to art. The term was first used by the Greek philosopher Aristotle in his Poeticsto refer to the desired effect of tragedy on spectators. A famous example of catharsis is realized in Sophocles' Oedipus Rex,when Oedipus discovers that his wife, Jacosta, is his own mother and that the stranger he killed on the road was his own father. (See also Aristotelian Criticism.)
Sometimes people need to grieve. It doesn't always have anything to do with the situation at hand.
Actually, that's a good point. Some of the media coverage seemed almost purposely designed to whip people up into a kind of frenzy of grieving. Sometimes, you have to switch off the TV and try to analyse what you're being presented with.
The collapse of communist regimes in the former eastern bloc, as attributed.
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Perhaps, in a geographical sense, but in a hysteria sense, only the reaction in Poland ranks with the hysteria in the UK after the death of Diana.
I didn't notice any young people in tears, by the way.
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