Sometimes I end up hearing about some famous actor celeb type death as a thing people are talking about online and it feels weird to watch because they’ll be all sad about it and I’m just sitting there thinking like “ok.” Like it’s not that I don’t sympathize about loss, but at some point some years back, I decided I didn’t want to have anything to do with celeb stuff anymore. And as a result of that and class consciousness and such, what I see when I hear about X famous celebrity death is “some rich person I don’t know died.” They probably weren’t an overtly terrible person or a notably good one, but then again, in the Yankee celebrity sphere, they could have easily been a lowkey zionist. So all the more reason not to put them on a pedestal. They may have done some good work as an entertainer, but if that’s reason for me to mourn them, there’s a long list of nurses and teachers and so on whose names I don’t know who I feel I should be mourning the loss of long before I ever bother with the sympathy for an entertainer celeb death.

I mean, I value the arts as a medium and I value the work people put into entertaining others, but mourning the loss of some entertainers who got a bougie life off of being popular as an entertainer doesn’t seem like a good use of my energy.