-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-07-18 16:24:35 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>we have overlooked the fact that a human being is dead!
>Whether you liked him or not, republican or democrat, illuminati or
Freemason,
>a human has died, we should at least show some sympathy to the families.
I have sympathy for his family, yes, but no more sympathy than for the family
of any ORDINARY human being who has died a tragic death. What I strongly
object to, and what subtracts from such sympathy, is this current trend in
America toward granting "supernatural" status to the media-celebrity class,
which includes political celebrities.
Already, as earlier seen in the response to the death of Princess Diana, the
media are granting JFK Jr some kind of imaginary divinity through class
attribution of "royalty," calling him "the American Prince." (A male
counterpart of the "Martyred Princess.")
Apparently the mass-media now have a monopoly on conditions in the afterlife
and, as the Church once did, has arrogated to itself the power to create
saints and deities at whim, subject to its OWN criteria -- which, in America,
are usually beauty, wealth, or power -- superficial qualities and qualities
which undermine any true sense of values.
To base a "morality" on such things, and manipulate our sympathies
(admiration or sense of loss, by which our attachment to what is VALUED is
measured) in a patently "religious" way, is appalling. All our real WORSHIP
is in the TV Church of the Image.
Whether or not one is visible in the media is now the only standard of
personal worth.
Alive, JFK Jr was a real human being, with good and bad qualities, like
everyone else.
Dead now, his image has been co-opted by the media manufacturers of MYTH --
he is no longer REAL. Our (bogus) feelings now toward him --a STRANGER to us
even now, a human being most of us have never met or known-- are therefore
equally UNREAL.
Save your feelings for persons you have contact with and have interacted
with, face to face -- otherwise those so-called "feelings" are no more
genuine than those of a pimply youth masturbating to a foldout in Playboy.
Harsh? Necessarily so, in the US, where we treat REAL human beings as
useless "things," while responding to mere IMAGES as if more "real," more
emotionally moving, more evocative of admiration or contempt.
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