Scuzzy looking British comedian Russell Brand has a bone to pick with the public over the death of Jade Goody. Basically he blames them for killing her with their intense and malicious hatred. Now Jade did provoke her share of outrage, and maybe then some, when she called her Big Brother house mate Shilpa Shetty some bad names like Shilpa Poppadom. The public didn't take the antics as Carla and Diane Cheers style friendly antagonism. In fact they became quite outraged about it. Though these comments were no worse than those made by Sir Paul McCartney on occasion, the public didn't feel like giving Goody a pass on it.
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Bedlam in Britain, & beyond!
It didn't end in Britain either. After she had outraged Britain and most of the world, she was off to India - the scene of race riots she had triggered - for the local Big Brother version, called Big Boss. It was a cinch to get her the gig. Shilpa was hosting that series, and they shared a business manager. Besides the crowd was eager to have at her. As the only non Indian in the cast the deck was stacked against her. it was some time during the Big Boss run that she was diagnosed with terminal cancer.Coincidence or connection?
Now some would call this coincidence. Brand might be on to something though. The connection between stress and illness is pretty well known, and not just your standard heart attack type health crisis either. For instance it's been established that people are more likely to get a serious illness within one year of experiencing a major life trauma, like losing a job or a spouse (assuming that they like their work, or are fond of their spouse).
What's the matter with mind over matter?
What's more doctors have a phrase for people they feel are due for cancer sooner or later. They call it 'cancer prone personality'. This isn't medical fact, but purely anecdotal. Seems that cancer specialist couldn't help noticing that all the wrong patients were surviving. Specifically the cooperative patients who were committed to recovery, and following their doctors' orders, would perish. Meanwhile the difficult sons of bitches would waltz out of the ward and onto a full recovery. Docs surmised that this had something to do with emotional repression. Jade had eaten her share of shit since her Big Brother outburst, so it's fair to assume she had some heavy emotional issues to deal with.
New outrage will get our minds off of our consciences!
So Brand's comments have some basis. That didn't stop the public form turning on him too. The response was something along the lines of 'Brand should be hung by the buts and dipped in a vat of acid head first'. This can probably be attributed to Brand hitting a raw nerve, and some public guilt at Goody's recent passing.
de ja who?
That kind of reaction isn't unusual, especially when the public secretly feels that they might have been too hard on some one. When Lady Diana passed she was referred to as the Queen of Hearts, for a week or two. The next logical conclusion was that some one ought to be to blame for her untimely passing. The likely suspects were the pesky paparazzi. They were at the scene of the crime. The paps were too savvy for that, and reminded the public that they only give them what they want. What they want isn't pictures of Mother Theresa tending to lepers, so the public could put that in their collective pipe and smoke it. The ball was back in their court.
we're not gonna take it!
Since the public won't stand for being blamed for anything ever, that meant they had to find another way out of their guilt complex. So it was eventually decided that Diana was a silly shallow manipulative person who brought her misfortune on herself, by constantly seeking the spot light. Don't blame us if she didn't know how to conduct herself sensibly. That made everyone feel a bit better.
'Blame' is the name of the game
So when Russell started playing the blame game, he pushed the issue to the next stage; from low key guilt to finger pointing. If Jade was really alright after all, then some one has got to be responsible for her months of misery and her early death. As stated, that can't be the public. So it's explanation time.
Hurricane Shilpa?
Well I for one don't hold Shetty completely unaccountable. She does come off as a bit stuck up. While no decent person would indulge in racist language, at least not when a camera's pointed straight at them from point blank range; most would've been tempted to take Shetty down a peg or two. Besides this isn't Shetty's only international incident. She got poor Richard Gere charged for public indecency and burned in effigy when he planted one on her at a public event in India. Now we know that Rich couldn't have been to blame. He's very high minded and a close personal friend of the Dalai Lama! Maybe Shilpa is just one of those people who unintentionally stirs it up where ever they go. Kind of like The Simpson's irritating nice guy Ned Flanders!really evil
I don't think that those reality TV bastards can be let off the hook easy either! Though reality TV is unscripted, it is staged - just like professional wrestling and much of FOX News. They probably thought it would be dramatic to set Shilpa and Jade against one another. A how down between the princess and the bully might have made some fun viewing - if Jade hadn't taken it too far. Then again Jade's house mates got a great kick out of it, if they way the egged her on then stood back and snickered was any indication. Still it was the producer that were running the show. Reality TV is the true evil of our time!
blaming the victim might make us feel better
Maybe Jade herself bears some responsibility for her misfortune. She was a dental assistant before she got distracted by the limelight. If Russ is to be believed then she'd be alive today if she hadn't gone seeking after fame and fortune, perhaps quietly pulling teeth and setting fillings. Now that's a conclusion even load mouthed Brand doesn't dare draw. He too has set himself after fame, and burned the bridge to the ordinary life behind him. In fact I suppose that it was a mistake anyone might have made.
Hi, cruel piranhas
So really Jade's downfall lay in that dark corner of the human heart that nurses the desire for fame. She brought it on herself. The world only facilitated her misfortune. Just like so many eager paparazzi obligingly providing the consumer with what they really want. Did she really want to be Lindsay Lohan? She was old enough to know better than that. Not that any of us would've in her position. Still the thought that she brought it on herself, and that the karmic ledger books balance out should help everyone get on with it, until Jade starts to fade from memory, and we can move on to fresh outrages. The wheel may be crooked but what goes around comes around. Still there but for the grace of God go I. If everyone is do 15 mins of fame, then just remember; fame is being the stiff at your own funeral. Rest in peace, Jade.
celebrities want to rule the world, except for Wonder Woman & Olivia Newton John!
It seems like everybody wants to rule the world, especially celebrities! There's a little celebrity in all of us too. Ain't it a shame. So let us take a look back at a time when entertainment was about singing songs, and having a laugh, instead of a global struggle of light against darkness -or at least that's what Olivia Newton John tried to get through to Wonder Woman!
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