It can get a little wearing watching the news. All the attempts to create iconic figures out of the populace from the tube train driver who guided people to safety to the man who helped a woman with a burnt face. All these people have said that yes it was them and that they again, just did what anyone else would or that they were just doing their job. However the press seems very keen on deifying them. Again, I’m not sure it’s for those members of the public’s benefit. Could it be to sell papers and stories, to milk disaster for all it’s worth.
I now hope that I am getting too cynical.
We have recently had a development in this country for celebrity for celebrity’s sakes. The creation and elevation of people with no or little skill in life and less inclination to use those skills. The ‘It’ girls and the footballers wives are prime examples. Independently well off, these Coco the Clown look-a-likes have done little to benefit humanity and in some cases seem to undergo lives of tawdry excess and substance abuse. And I don’t know why.
Few of them seem to be genuinely happy and, trust me on this, that make up on a 50 year old will look less than pleasant.
They are almost appreciated because they’re tawdry. Like being unable to stop watching a car crash. You know what will happen but can’t look away.
Certainly the people who helped on Thursday need no part of this tacky ‘processing’ by the media. When we do things because of reward rather than it being right we are on a slippery slope to rule by lawyer and dominance of the ‘affordable monthly repayment’
Or am I ‘Disgusted’ from Tunbridge Wells?
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