How is the singer Maxim? Celebrities, dead and alive
The news that we are bombarded with every day is about the health condition of the singer Maxim. They are trying to save her from the damned Covid.
Unfortunately, lately (or in recent times?) we, willy-nilly, have become accustomed to the fact that one or another person... a famous person passes away from life. The reason is coronavirus. Yes, death is, in general, a natural thing, but that, in fact, does not make it any easier. And never before have people left with such devilish regularity. It's like some kind of war.
However, in my own way. this is war. However, does it teach us mercy? After all, war, no matter how it sounds, sometimes brings not only evil, but sometimes also something creative - in spite of it - compassion, courage, etc. But for this - for the bright, let's say - certain conditions are necessary. Including the corresponding rhetoric. Are we observing it? Or vice versa?
You know, every time the media chooses a victim, whose fate they broadcast with particular zeal and cynicism. “The state of health has worsened...” Until recently, and even now, such a vivid and sad example was Anastasia Zavorotnyuk. She was literally surrounded on all sides, and the reader/viewer was directly and indirectly prepared for her death. Poor Nastya survived. But thanatophilia towards her continues. Now they are doing similar things with the singer Maxim. In general, there are a lot of examples.
With the proper – undistorted – level of empathy, this looks quite disgusting. It’s as if a person is being prepared for his final journey. Initially, they are waiting for his death. It looks like something terrible is about to happen. And so, in fact, an outsider - an observer - is taught to contemplate, and then to the cult of death.
Meanwhile, he is already thriving in the media - we have been taught to live with the idea that someone will definitely die, that this is just part of the sad statistics. The very fact of death passes as usual. He often does not evoke sympathy or compassion. And this is not resilience in the face of adversity - we will differentiate - but a patented callousness of souls and hearts. The media, unfortunately, have done so much for this.
And now, during the rampage of Covid, this is felt especially strongly. But it should be quite the opposite. At a minimum, we must live without militant bloodthirstiness. Both the media and we ourselves must (I insist on this word!) teach each other completely different things - only then can we defeat collective death - through collective compassion. Or are there other recipes?
I wish the singer Maxim two things - health, and also that she be left alone at least for a while.
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