re: Anthony Bourdain DEAD 61

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Bad move to move it. Particularly because the Poli Board has batted Bourdain topics around for a decade. And because it was on the Poli Board peoplenon the Movie Board are going to be wondering why all the comments were political.

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That does explain a lot about the early parts of this thread.

I mean, at what point do you identify with a person so much that you celebrate when one of their detractors kills themselves?
It's like how the insecure middle schooler would react.

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What is Trump Derangement Syndrome

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Or one who screams at the sky, rants uncontrollably, and disrupts family gatherings to scream “ Fukc the Orange Cheeto “ before grabbing his soy milk, the wife and her boyfriend, and storming out to the Prius with the “ I’m with Her” bumper sticker and driving home to their tiny home to watch said wife’s boyfriend violate her anally on the couch while cooking for both.

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I mean, at what point do you identify with a person so much that you celebrate when one of their detractors kills themselves?
It's like how the insecure middle schooler would react.

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The Poliboard as a whole is Idiocracy come to life: Trial scene

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finds the dormant pathology in people and amplifies it (in people who otherwise wouldn't display the pathologies)

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This is what I believe social media has done and to a much lesser extent, the efficiency of our technology in delivering the information that we WANT to see.

Social media has completely unmasked people's inner most motivations and desires, then compounds them via "Likes" and views. It's driven somewhat healthy people to what I'd liken to starved stray dogs addicted to the clicker sound and being fed a big hunk of meat each time until... well, they aren't. Then it's off to somewhere else in search for their fix.

The variety the internet offers keeps people on the hook and encourages their behavior even if they are heading straight for a cliff. You can always find that 1% on the internet who agree with you and will encourage you to continue down your current path no matter how detrimental. The down-vote option is one of the main reasons I love TD. Most of society today needs a down-vote button.

For me personally, social media has killed off most of my curiosity and interest in people in general. I'm not near the romantic I used to be.

No Reservations and Parts Unknown were great shows.

I probably binged watched both twice on Netflix.

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the people on this board tend to be good people.

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I wasn't the biggest Bourdain fan, and thought he was constantly negative and condescending.

But i read a story today about when he came to St Louis he met a kid with cancer who asked him where he should travel to eat when he went into remission. He said Spain. A couple days after the event, he reached out to a local reporter or someone involved with the event, and ironed out the details on paying for that kid to travel to Spain.

He requested that he not be mentioned in the stories written about the kid.

It makes me wonder how many other stories are out there like that were never told because he wasn't looking for that kind of attention. An audience, yes, but not that kind of attention.

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Dude is wealthy, travels the world, enjoyed the finest things in life, and practically didn’t have to actually work. And he was suicidal?? The frick?

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i mean, depression and suicide don't affect the poor only...

I want the assholes celebrating his suicide to read Yashar Ali’s Twitter feed. It’s a really crippling read and to anyone who is still happy about his death, you are a complete sociopath: LINK