RIP Robin Williams

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In a world of false celebrity and pathetic idolisation it's become hard for me to get worked up about the tragedy of someone else's life. But in this case I am truly bummed. Robin Williams was brilliant. There are few artists who have been able to affect so many with so much talent for so long. You could count on one or two hands the people who fit into his company when you think about it. Robin Williams mattered.

That he lost a battle against an unknowable force like depression is inconceivable to most of us. Mental disorders are our country's most ignored and possibly most dangerous threat. I wish we did more to combat it both clinically and socially. People lose loved ones every day to this same disease....maybe this can be another, hopefully bigger, stepping stone to really trying to solve this terrible f*cking blight.