The Paradox of Grief

The idea of grief is interesting to me philosophically because we're talking about people who are going missing. And there's almost this sort of metaphysical hinge that I see between the idea of grief, people who actually have gone missing and that were mourning their loss. And this idea of a people to come or a people who have not yet arrived and the prospects of utopia. Is grief perhaps something that is not well processed collectively by British people? You've got to try really hard for people to see you beyond your cliché, otherwise all they will be is a cliché. All this sort of stuff is the enemy of reaction really I think.

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