>>1361310
Have been giving it some deep thought, and believe this is some kind of social trend here. It started here, but it's already outgrowing its 8chan clothes and maturing into something beyond this.
Remember when people read Hollywood gossip magazines? "Entertainment Tonight" was a big deal? Even our grandparents' generation kept up with Liz Taylor and another era of "stars". Now that everyone's figured out that Hollywood is just a huge, degenerate cesspool of artificiality, there's a natural human tendency to want to peer into an entirely different area of society, to see "how the other half lives".
That distraction lasted for years, whether it was set up intentionally that way or not, but like every trend in history, it had a lifecycle, and it's at an end.
Unluckily for them, the world is starting to turn its attention onto politicians and world leaders. What's more, the more people who start paying attention, the greater the numbers of people who also begin to do so will become, and at an ever-increasing pace.
Even more unfortunate for them is the fact that most politicians and world leaders ain't exactly the best-looking humans. That fact means that the world isn't likely to fixate on their glamorous wardrobe, or their hair & makeup, or their cars and homes. Nope, they're just stuck with the world focusing a microscope onto what they SAY, and WRITE, and DO. Are they genuine? Are they actually intelligent enough to be trusted with leadership? Are they of good character? Are they sufficiently motivated to push for needed changes?
"Now comes the pain"
And as Keats wrote so beautifully, TRUTH is the pain.
Truth burns and punishes bad people, and leaves good people untouched.
Something is making me want to quote another author, Margaret Mitchell, who gave Scarlett O'Hara these immortal lines. I hope the world feels the same way Scarlett did; she was hardened and made wise by difficult times. We learned so many things the hard way. Never again.
"As God is my witness, they're not going to lick me. I'm going to live through this, and when it's all over, I'll never be hungry again. No, nor any of my folk. If I have to lie, steal, cheat or kill. As God is my witness, I'll never be hungry again!"