People are such gossips. What they like to do most is talk about other people, especially what's wrong with other people, how bad other people are and what unspeakable and terrible things they have done. The worse things they hear about someone else the happier they are, since that makes them feel better about themselves in comparison. Even worse, this claptrap passes as "news" both online and on TV, where news anchors pass along gossip, verified by the words "according to people familiar with the situation.".
The latest "hot news" concerns someone named Jeffrey Epstein, who did very bad things in his lifetime but is dead now and who I never heard of even once when he was alive. The fact that he posed for pictures at fancy parties with famous rich people like Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Woody Allen is making all those wagging tongues wag even harder.
Imagine what a great world this would be if our minds were not filled with stories about bad people but instead good people. Maybe we would all behave better -- you know, because of that comparison thing. Who knows, we might even solve a few of our own problems.
Imagine what a great world this would be if our minds were not filled with stories about bad people but instead good people. Maybe we would all behave better -- you know, because of that comparison thing. Who knows, we might even solve a few of our own problems.
schadenfreude
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