The only thing worse than Charlie Sheen exploiting himself is the media that is so willing to unabashedly exploit his mental illness in the most Jerry Springer of methods. ...and the only thing worse than the media are the people sitting and watching a human being unravel before them. Turn off the goddamn television.
"It's too late, Diana. There's nothing left in you that I can live with. You're one of Howard's humanoids. If I stay with you, I'll be destroyed. Like Howard Beale was destroyed. Like Laureen Hobbs was destroyed. Like everything you and the institution of television touch is destroyed. You're television incarnate, Diana: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer. And the daily business of life is a corrupt comedy. You even shatter the sensations of time and space into split seconds and instant replays. You're madness, Diana. Virulent madness. And everything you touch dies with you. But not me. Not as long as I can feel pleasure, and pain... and love." - "Network" (1976)
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2011/03/01/134161063/paying-a-penny-at-bedlam
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