r/melbourne • u/Diqt • Feb 21 '24

Light and Fluffy News Taylah Sweeeft

Hopefully this doesn't get deleted because I sure as hell can't post anywhere else about her unless it's mindnumbing blind agreement with everyone else.

Anyway I just saw live coverage of her NFL boyfriend landing in Sydney. Professional journalists who have interviewed our country's leaders are watching his plane land. Sitting around talking about it. This is live news.

This goes WAY beyond enjoying her music. I don't know what this is anymore. It felt like as a society we were moving away from celebrity worship. This has lost touch of reality. What's weird is everyone going along with it? I feel like I'm in a movie where everyone gets infected and I'm going to be the last person alive. Movie ends with me dancing mindlessly to Shake it Off, my eyeballs completely white. Roll credits.

Maybe a Swifty can explain this phenomenon to me because this level of worship would be ridiculed for just about any other celebrity. I didn't even know Pink and Blink 182 were here too, they've gotten so little media coverage.

EDIT: Thanks mods for not deleting this. Third different sub I tried. Happy that the Melbourne sub allows some discussion! Saving me from any Donald Sutherland in Body Snatchers assumptions.

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '24

“What’s weird is everyone going along with it”

I didn’t even know this was a thing, maybe switch off the internet and news for a bit?

Being constantly online creates the risk of false perception that your world is something it actually is not.

I spend my days off hiking on mountains and meditating, every now and then I’ll log on to apps to see what’s going on in the world, then it’ll be like war in Ukraine, war in Gaza, war in Rwanda, cartel wars in Mexico, army taking over from Police in El Salvador to smash MS-13.

So same violent and unstable news.

Roll in few celebrity scandals and news are done.

Then I’ll be like that’s enough internet for me for next few days/weeks and I’ll be back to meditating, hiking, watching sunset on mountains.

Your reality is what you choose it to be. Unless you are in Gaza or Ukraine, in that case you have no choice.

Don’t let the news outlets drive you crazy.