Law Humor

“We made the distinction of loving the child, but ridiculing the man.”

By Pseudoanonymous

More empathy for an easy target:

When the signs started to become clear, that the boy wasn?t right, that he was too isolated, underdeveloped, imperfect - we laughed, we stared, we assumed. He was our first boyfriend before he became our crazy cousin - always family.

We didn?t see the pain, we saw the bizarre, and we are vultures for scandal…

When it became clear that the boy?s face we had loved had become the face of a man who didn?t love himself; we judged him. We tore at him and he fell apart. He was living proof of the impact of our rabid pop culture, an early sacrifice to the new mechanisms of fame which allow no privacy, no time to learn, no mistakes.

Get that: “the new mechanisms of fame”. Welcome to the machine.

Full post as published by Arkansawyer on July 02, 2009 (boomark / email).