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Re:The Logic of the Rebel: On Simone Weil and Albert Camus by skylarchunk on Friday March 13, 2020 @03:18PM (#22570093)
This article remarks on the shared experience of suffering from TB among the two. I find it strange how TB had been molded into a glamorous disease reserved for the middle-upper class in times when writers like Camus and Weil were public patients. We, in a way, see a similar sort of sensationalism around a new virus with the Canadian PM's wife and Tom Hanks both being victims. The logic of the rebel is supported by the veneer of a medical malady—contextualized malady.
Re:The Logic of the Rebel: On Simone Weil and Albert Camus by wideasleep1 on Friday March 13, 2020 @10:56PM (#22572827)
For some, 'shit becomes real' when it happens to a 'virtuous' celebrity, in absence of them personally knowing of any other victim. It fits comfortably into emotional contagion, and the manufacture of heroes through martyrdom.