why do you cry?

A question uttered by Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 2 to a young Edward Furlong.

Surprisingly enough young Eddie was not bawling because of the imminent nosedive his career was about to take after his appearance in the movie. I have been thinking about this question after watching it recently and have decided that the reason we cry has changed inexorably in the past ten years.

Only Americans cried up to 1997.
 After Lady Diana's death and the national (ie English) outpouring of mourning, people thought it was okay to cry.

Now if some one farts out of tune on the X factor or their mum's a single parent, coldplay fade in and the person dissolves into a blubbering mess.

This trivialisation of people's emotions for our pleasure sickens me. It's all Cowell's fault. Since his Stalinistic rise to power he has single handedly been the puppet master of the UK's national psyche. you can't turn on the news now to see everyone crying these days, blokes too.

Now this may sound callous but wait and think, perhaps in the old days, when I was a kid people were dying left, right and centre and families were featured on the news on a daily basis. I think that when these poor people broke down the director turned off the camera to leave them to grieve in piece, or the editor made it so that we were not privy to their private emotions and feelings. To sum up, it was called respect.

This has led to a breakdown in society, there are no corners to hide respect in anymore, if we were in the corner......................................



cue Adele