College Admissions Cheating Racket

[Benton]

(03-13-2019, 03:44 PM)Dill Wrote: LOL the only episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians that I watched revolved around two events:

1) Kim, in Hollywood, wanted to take friends to Louisiana to treat them to Cajun food, so she flew a group down there to a restaurant.

2) There is a hotel in Paris that makes THE BEST cheesecake, so she flew there to have some.  She was pregnant so this was treated as a craving. (Still, that is a 13 hr flight at least, so she was somewhat inconvenienced by distance.)

These events were sandwiched between the most ordinary discussions of breaking relationships and fashion sense. Middle school level.

Does this ever raise the question in viewers' minds--what do I do with wealth once I have it?  Is existence more meaningful once I can fly to Paris for a snack? Maybe it is absence of meaning, or of any ability to frame life in meaningful terms, that makes wealth for its own sake a default goal and symbol of "achievement."  

We've devolved into a highlight society. We don't really focus on the details, we just think about the snapshots.

I do a lot of sports photography for work. People always talk about a shot in particular or ask for tips on how to get so many good ones. But the truth is, it's just the highlights. I've got a decent camera and a huge memory card. Out of 300 shots, I get maybe 10 good ones and 3-5 print worthy ones. But people don't see the 297 discarded photos, they only want to know how they can get more like the three.