Kinda funny how a billionaire dies of cancer at 56, but there are drug-addled homeless men still alive and older than that.
__________________ Recently Produced and Distributed Young but High-Ranking Political Figure of Royal Ancestry within the Modern American Town Affectionately Referred To as Bel-Air.
Gender: Unspecified Location: With Cinderella and the 9 Dwarves
It's very sad. I didn't really take him stepping down as seriously, so this came out of nowhere for me. He did some great things for technology, and his keynotes were so iconic.
__________________ Recently Produced and Distributed Young but High-Ranking Political Figure of Royal Ancestry within the Modern American Town Affectionately Referred To as Bel-Air.
That's still more of an "Aww too bad" thing more than a "deeply saddening" thing. People are deeply saddened when a close friend dies, but a technology mogul that introduced cool inventions, but whom you never knew, isn't in the same ball park.
And if he is... wow.
__________________ Recently Produced and Distributed Young but High-Ranking Political Figure of Royal Ancestry within the Modern American Town Affectionately Referred To as Bel-Air.
Gender: Unspecified Location: With Cinderella and the 9 Dwarves
I can't help how I feel, but I understand what you mean, though I disagree. I think a lot of things that don't personally involve you can be "deeply saddening", perhaps we just use different scales, your "deeply saddening" may be my "paralyzing despair" or something else.
But yeah, I understand what you mean, we feel very connected to celebrities now, even though we don't know them personally. But it makes sense, people works and lives speak to us, musicians, authors make us feel connected to them, that is part of the power they have. Steve Jobs, through years of close exposure through the media, spoke to me, and I admired him in many ways.
Perhaps you too have people you idolize whose deaths would sadden you even though you never met them or aren't close friends?
Outside of the cast of television shows I like, I couldn't care less about any celebrity. If I don't know the person, their life or death means nothing to me. I'd only care about the TV actors cuz their deaths would leave gaping holes in the shows' character rosters. But even then, I'd be far more concerned with the direction the show takes from that point on more than I would the actor's death.
__________________ Recently Produced and Distributed Young but High-Ranking Political Figure of Royal Ancestry within the Modern American Town Affectionately Referred To as Bel-Air.
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