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mikesmith[/url]":1lt9mmsp]So while maybe you could call this ode to vanity art, I'd place it in the same vein as emo teenage poetry. Much more about the feelings of the author in too obvious a way to be artistically valuable.
I'm impressed by your ability to so casually dismiss someone's expression of loss and grieving. I can only conclude that you must have led a life of such extremely good fortune that you are incapable of empathizing with those who have suffered.
I hope your good fortune holds, and you never learn the pain of loss first-hand. But if you do, I hope that you don't encounter anyone who dismisses your attempt to cope with your grief as vanity.
The passive aggressiveness of your post belies a lack of emotional control. I don't dismiss the author's experience or feelings, I simply dismiss the idea of such a heavy handed narrative as art. I'm unsurprised that the view would be negatively received as most people are incapable of true extrospection and at best can only relate to others only as through their own limited experience. As such my view receives short shrift and hasty dismissal, as relating to it deeply might challenge one's own views.
We're humans. We're social animals. We build our "emotional control" through relations with the other. We need them to learn what "true extrospection" is.
If you only rely on yourself, you risk developing sociopathy.
Now, cancer is a grievous beast. It destroys lives, of both those who are affected and those who are near them. But we tend to keep our grief to ourselves, so relating on the matter is difficult.
The Greens has the courage to share their story, so people could learn some experience about coping with the tragedy. I wish I had some when my mother died of cancer a while ago...
