Rachel Verinder said:
what i care about is the poverty of people who can't shed a tear for their own friends or family but start blubbering like Stasist whales when Someone Famous cops it.
i didn't like it with diana in '97 and i don't like it now.
Why should having a little sympathy or empathy for Richard Whitely require that none be shown for dead friends or family?
Perversely, by publicly expressing your contempt for high-profile figures, you're trying to elevate your own reputation, perhaps to stand out from the herd of anonymous plebs you really detest. And that's the main problem with humanity at present, the Nemo drive.
"...I believe each human psyche has a fourth element, which, using a
word indicated by the Freudian terminology, I call the nemo. By this
I mean not only `nobody', but also the state of being nobody --
`nobodiness'. In short, just as physicists now postulate an anti-
matter, so must we consider the possibility that there exists in the
human psyche an anti-ego. This is the nemo. " John Fowles in the Aristos, 1964.