I'm German and every time that happens the first thing I think of is the 'model concentration camp' Theresienstadt and how many German entertainers of the time performed there for Hitler (who then seamlessly continued their successful careers after the war mostly explaining that they hadn't gone there for 'political…

It's very easy for anyone to end up on my shitlist. I was in the library the other day picking up CDs and that and thatshe said some really shitty things about feminism once were what popped into my head seeing her album on the shelf. Maybe I should look into it and see if she redeemed herself.

Yes, it stays with you. I'm not able to read anything about the woman without thinking of it.

I specifically mention this because of that arbitrariness with which celebrities are judged. Because of this incident, Carey's image in Germany is different from the American one. Hardly anyone in the US has ever even heard of it, the American media absolutely ignored it.

I don't really understand the whole 'gee, Mariah is adorable' thing that the media seems to have agreed on when it comes to Carey.

I've wondered about this before. Some "celebrity figures" get - rightfully! raked over coals for doing this while others get off scot free.

I understand that very well. However, I have a pretty common name that is easy to spell and it still gets regularly mispelled and mispronounced. People are just dumb so at a certain point one needs to stop caring about them. They'll be dumb either way.

Disgressing from the original comment:

Carson, however, makes me think of Carson McCullers!

Not to mention that people who are either 'spiritually seeking' or raised within a religious background are very vulnerable to religious cults.

That sounds like a 101 cult from the 1960s. How did she get sucked into it?

Thankfully, things didn't go as horrible for you and your family members as they very well could have. What sort of cult was your mother involved with?

It looks like it's an instrument, possibly a maraca, fastened to his wrists so he can play it without using his hands.

And she is fantastic in it too.

There is also Martha Marcy May Marlene.

Ticket To Heaven does a really great job at portraying brainwashing techniques and it illustrates pretty much text book the story of how many people were indoctrinated into the Moonies in the 60s/70s.

I will never understand how nobody gets this. There is no "big bad evil" in the world. Sure, there are sadists and psychopaths but they are the minority. What really constitutes evil and causes all the suffering in the world are exactly all these nice, good, well-intentioned harmless people who cannot empress empathy…