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Because when JFK died the world stood still for a hot minute and then everybody resumed their activities as if nothing had happened Same with MLK, Diana Spence
by GDC7 5y ago
Because when JFK died the world stood still for a hot minute and then everybody resumed their activities as if nothing had happened
Same with MLK, Diana Spencer, Michael Jackson, John Lennon etc.
Even if you are #1 of 8.000.000.000 you are still only 1/8.000.000.000
Bezos and Branson didn't need to go up in their own rocketship, but they did so to occupy the airwaves.
Same reason why Musk tweets like a maniac
These people are like the person who climbs the Everest "because it's there", but instead of mt. Everest they see the total amount of daily waking hours that the 8 billion people on the planet spend doing their own activities and then seek to monopolize that time forcing people to genuflect and idolize them and their products.
In the past those who had this sort of social standing were forced to live in the moment.
Roman emperors woke up greatful that they were not assassinated during the night, and went to bed equally greatful that they managed to stay alive.
Today you have people with 100B dollars and 40 years of life ahead of them! Humans were never made to live in this way. We are in uncharted territory.
I don't know if we would ever be able to analyze brains in real time or postmortem but we probably won't like what we'll find in there.