http://thethirdestate.net/2009/06/breaking-news-michael-jack-slashed-shot-shelled-and-finally-disappears/ What Is The Third Estate? Everything. What Has It Been Until Now In The Political Order? Nothing. What Does It Want To Be? Something. Tue, 22 May 2012 04:47:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 http://thethirdestate.net/2009/06/breaking-news-michael-jack-slashed-shot-shelled-and-finally-disappears/comment-page-1/#comment-45067 Colin Sloss Thu, 22 Sep 2011 07:51:56 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=833#comment-45067 Very funny. Very funny.

]]> http://thethirdestate.net/2009/06/breaking-news-michael-jack-slashed-shot-shelled-and-finally-disappears/comment-page-1/#comment-1200 Tendai Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:35:34 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=833#comment-1200 This sounds a bit like the 'not-the-end-of-the-world' dichotomy. Surely there are a lot of things that aren't in that category but are a proper subject of public dismay? Looked at from a distance, perhaps it seems decadent to mourn a pop music artist. But in the case of somebody as prominent and culturally significant as Michael Jackson, I think this is an understandable subject for public dismay. Human beings have always mourned selectively. I don't see a contradiction in expressing momentary dismay about it, while remaining concerned, today and tomorrow, about the other pressing issues in the world. This sounds a bit like the ‘not-the-end-of-the-world’ dichotomy. Surely there are a lot of things that aren’t in that category but are a proper subject of public dismay? Looked at from a distance, perhaps it seems decadent to mourn a pop music artist. But in the case of somebody as prominent and culturally significant as Michael Jackson, I think this is an understandable subject for public dismay. Human beings have always mourned selectively. I don’t see a contradiction in expressing momentary dismay about it, while remaining concerned, today and tomorrow, about the other pressing issues in the world.

]]> http://thethirdestate.net/2009/06/breaking-news-michael-jack-slashed-shot-shelled-and-finally-disappears/comment-page-1/#comment-1199 Darren Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:02:23 +0000 http://thethirdestate.net/?p=833#comment-1199 Good video. Posted it on my facebook page. Good video. Posted it on my facebook page.

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