Extremism
Extremism of virtually every stripe is behavioral insanity.
Commercial products of every make and model are peddledacross media advertising venues through extremism: speed, sound, color, exaggeration, and idiocy are used in extreme methods to secure and manipulate the American public into buying one thing or another.
Here is how extremism works in real time.
Beginning this past Father’s Day through Thursday, June 22, the American and world attention was absorbed in the missing OceanGate submersible Titan lost with a crew of five adventurers who wanted to go to extreme depths to see the infamous wreckage of the Titanic.
Every morsel of information, every possible detail was consumed by a public absorbed in a death watch ritual until their actual deaths were announced.
Simultaneously, while the public’s interest and attention was focused on those five lost souls, more than 300 Pakistanis nationals died off the coast of Greece when a fishing trawler being used to smuggle them capsized and sank. The world barely noticed the tragedy. It was not extreme enough for the world to care about.
The question no one wishes to ask: are five rich lives more deserving of world attention than 300 impoverished lives?
All life is sacred. Each death of life deserves notice.
It was the extremism of the adventurers’ journey to the depths of the ocean where the ruins of the Titanic lay that captured the mass fascination of the nation.
Extremism.
Americans love it, especially when it comes to extreme adventure.
But should we?