A bearhug to all frenchmen and women

[Churchill]

[*Touring Ted*]

RIP indeed... Another terrible day on planet Earth..


It's funny how the world mourns when it's in 'The west'

But when it happens elsewhere we barely give it a second thought.

Lebanon holds day of mourning after deadly Beirut blasts - BBC News

What a strange breed we are.

[Walkabout]

Mourning does indeed take place everywhere - it is a very human instinct; it is also personal in the pure form.

Let us not be taken in by the main stream media hype, of any nature.
The media will report only in accord with their own agenda.

As for "Breaking News"!!

[chris gale]

Ted I spent thirty years dealing with tragedy and no one except those affected gave a toss, you see it now all those pouring out grief for the child that was found on the beach in turkey....... Haven't heard anything about the lady whose high heels can be seen sticking out from under the sheet on a pavement in Paris though.
Back to my latte
Personally I would like to shove pictures of the baby who accidentally hung itself on a blind cord in its bedroom right in their face........... Rant over.

[Walkabout]

Originally Posted by chris gale

Ted I spent thirty years dealing with tragedy and no one except those affected gave a toss

In some instances an affected lack of interest can be a defence mechanism against the shock, horror etc etc.

On the other hand, a form of mass hysteria can affect a population in some cases - I first became aware of this with the demise of Lady (Saint in some eyes) Diana in 1997; I was working overseas at that time and could not believe, much less understand, the news reporting of that period.

Nevertheless, there are people on the planet who do not give a toss:-

In Портрет тирана (1981) (Portrait of a Tyrant),[1] Soviet historian Anton Antonov-Ovseyenko attributes the following version to Stalin: "When one man dies it's a tragedy. When thousands die it's statistics." This is the alleged response of Stalin during the 1943 Tehran conference when Churchill objected to an early opening of a second front in France.
(An abstract from https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin )

[chris gale]

Strange that, I thought about Diana too as an example, people still get a monk on when you criticise her.
I believe Hitler used a similar analogy, when you kill a hundred there's outrage, when you kill thousands etc etc.........

[*Touring Ted*]

Hysteria sells newspapers..

[Walkabout]

Originally Posted by *Touring Ted*

Hysteria sells newspapers..

Along with much of the other, more modern, media.


" ........ If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ..............."
(abstracted from If, by Rudyard Kipling, 1895 or thereabouts).

[Walkabout]

Originally Posted by chris gale

Strange that, I thought about Diana too as an example, people still get a monk on when you criticise her.
........

I am not sure that it is off topic, not fully anyway.
The mass behaviour of crowds/populations has received plenty of analysis by various branches of science including the social sciences.

[Walkabout]

Small mercies, but I note that the HUBB has not adopted the use of the colours (colors for some) of the French tricolour in order to express, and spread, the empathy.
Further reading, anyone?
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