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by stephc_int13
1214 days ago
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This is a common pattern. The issue is not really the pressure, even if the pressure itself can be extremely toxic over a long duration. The problem is the lack of satisfaction from personal growth. We're all built with an internal feedback loop, inherited from our complex evolutionary path, this feedback loop is mostly sensitive to change. It is impossible to live a happy life without positive feedback into this loop. It does not matter how rich, powerful or famous you are, all of that is quickly integrated to be "normal", we need constant improvement or at least fluctuations with some positive slope. Hell is being born with everything and slowly losing status, friends, money and hope. |
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It's also a strange situation in which racial minorities that succumb to drug abuse are seen as criminals, while white people that have the same affliction are seen as "tragic cases of innocent societal victimization".
This world is deeply screwed up, and the music industry is even more so, but it's hard to see a story like this, as someone who wasn't "born with everything" yet still struggling after many years to create a foothold in music out of nothing, while people who have the opportunity of wealth and even ease of relation to celebrities keep failing and burning out... It's not jealousy, it's bewilderment.
The ideal that some sort of superior talent and creativity comes out of genetics, and that nefarious behavior should be forgiven based on genetics is rooted in racial superiority... It's a sham ideology we should all abandon in my opinion, especially when it keeps getting proven to be false. That being said, tragic loss of life should never be ignored and should be a lesson to us all about how to live our lives better.