Two polarities, outraged offence and titillated
pleasure so readily piqued by a public focus
on royalty, sport figures, celebrity entertainers
revealing their foibles and absurd capers but
above all their intimate emotional instability
so enamoured of themselves unselfconsciously
slipping into revelatory mode disclosing repulsive
and reputation-challenging tidbits swallowed
whole with the zest of unquenchable thirst for
scandal. The public's avid zeal for ever greater
self-implicating revelations is boundless. Those
invitations to appear on social platforms where
ever more tidbits of blame and shame can be
cajoled from the 'self-truth' maws of the entitled
and headlines blare triumphantly shameful slurs
explode with the passion of human idiocy.Yet
violent conflict, wholesale destruction of nations'
civil infrastructure, land mines neutralizing
farmers' fields, famine, human displacement
fail to register in the minds of connoisseurs
of human depravity as just simply too boring.
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