Friday Q&A

Questionable Desecration

Greetings, crickets and trolls. Welcome another edition of the Friday Q&A. Thanks for stopping by. This week was sobering, to say the least. That's an unpleasant experience for anyone who spends as much time in a bottle as I do. It would seem that our b-list celebrities are dropping like flies. Protect Mr T! He's practically all we have left.

Q: Can you explain the arcane concept of "too soon?"

A: Certainly. Before the Internet was invented, people still had a measure of civility. Openly mocking the recently deceased was frowned upon in polite company. Thank the FSM that backwards age is finally behind us! Nowadays, mankind is free to mine the comedy gold that lies in the heart every tragedy.

Q: Is anything off limits?

A: You're only limited by your own boundaries of good taste, which I assume have been whittled down to nothing after years of reading this blog. A recent discussion in the PSAEF posited whether or not it was okay to make fun of Michael Jackson's passing. If you wouldn't hesitate to mock him during life, why stop now that he's dead? I'm sure he's way too busy diddling little kids in child-molester heaven to wreak any kind of post mortem vengeance upon you.

Q: Why have we become so desensitized?

A: This question can be debated endlessly, but my theory has to do with the volume of information that modern humans consume. We are bombarded by tragedy on a daily, often hourly basis. At some point, it becomes difficult to care about the latest celebrity to overdose in his mansion.

That's all for this time, gentle reader. As usual, thanks for stopping by. Please forgive the morose overtones of this edition. I just find it bemusing when sainthood is bestowed upon fallen celebrities by the very same media that once vilified them. Let's hope we all find similar post mortem glory.
Except me because I'm a robot.
Stay tuned for more fatalistic prognostication from the Doctor!