06-26-2009, 11:45 AM
The thing that twists me is this--we have talked here in the recent past about how crazy us "real people" get when a celebrity dies. You know..the crying the "grief" over someone who would have not given a rats ass if one of US died.
That being said, the reality is, Jackson was a cultural icon of the 80's. He did define a lot of what 80's music was about. The one about him opening the doors for black musicians on MTV was said to death yesterday.
But, when all is said and done, who remembers that we lost another cultural icon, from the 70's yesterday, in Farrah Fawcett. Time that could have been taken speaking of her role in entertainment culture and fads (the hairdo, that poster) has been overshadowed by him.
Now I know we cannot pick when we die, and he could not have sat back and said, well, it is really not a good day to die, because of Farrah.
In the grand scheme of life, it is no big event because two people died yesterday..among all of the other people who died who won't rate more than a few lines on an obit page (if that), or with the economy and the war etc.
I guess I have too much time on my hands today and am way overthinking this. So I guess I will just hop off my soap box and go surf somewhere else for a while.
That being said, the reality is, Jackson was a cultural icon of the 80's. He did define a lot of what 80's music was about. The one about him opening the doors for black musicians on MTV was said to death yesterday.
But, when all is said and done, who remembers that we lost another cultural icon, from the 70's yesterday, in Farrah Fawcett. Time that could have been taken speaking of her role in entertainment culture and fads (the hairdo, that poster) has been overshadowed by him.
Now I know we cannot pick when we die, and he could not have sat back and said, well, it is really not a good day to die, because of Farrah.
In the grand scheme of life, it is no big event because two people died yesterday..among all of the other people who died who won't rate more than a few lines on an obit page (if that), or with the economy and the war etc.
I guess I have too much time on my hands today and am way overthinking this. So I guess I will just hop off my soap box and go surf somewhere else for a while.