Homo H. Sapiens

[Rokcet Scientist]

Because Hypocrisy is of course our middle name. As a species.

Remember, for instance, how the public wailing in North-Korea, a few months ago, was so ridiculed in the western media? While we in the west do exactly the same thing!

Have a look at this: scripted cheering Apple personnel, throngs of 'm, cheering at nothing in particular, mind you!, at the opening, today, of the Amsterdam Apple Store. Just to get adrenaline levels up, to make it an 'event':

I've noticed they do that at all the openings of Apple Stores the world over. From Shanghai to, well, Amsterdam. No different really than scripted wailing North-Koreans 'grieving over their Dear Leader'! The boss told 'm to fake emotion. Or else. So that's what they did. It was simply an outsourced cortège. Xtians hire a choir for a church funeral. Etc. Etc.

And wasn't cheerleading originally an American 'invention'?



Thank you, mods.

[The Grand Nudger]

While I'd love to take credit for cheerleaders as an american invention, I'm pretty sure that one goes to the first group of women who stood on the sidelines of a battlefield making noise, throwing rocks, and baring their breasts at the enemy. A common battlefield tactic the world over.

[Minimalist]

No different really than scripted wailing North-Koreans 'grieving over their Dear Leader'!

Except the Ipad is far more important that the Dear Leader ever was.