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From: moonboots@earthling.net (Boots)
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 02:00:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Kate vs. Diana
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On 8 Sep 1997 16:40:22 -0400, kbfreakc@aol.com (Kbfreakc) wrote: If you throw Mother Theresa into the equation, there should have been hundreds of state funerals, drowning out the insipid nature of the mass shock and horror following Diana's death. I can find very little in Diana that made her worthy of the outpouring--other than that she was a symbol. What was she a symbol of? Someone who was above average in beauty and grace who married a prince that was already a laughing-stock. I daresay that, if the Queen (God forbid this should happen) left this world tonight, England would be stuck with a tragically goofy figurehead that chose his wife badly, and then, in many ways, abandoned his decision. How can anybody still be talking about Diana? Where she was a store-bought figuring of soft pastic, Mother Theresa, no matter what religion or irreligion you might follow, was the real thing. Where Diana got tired of playing a barbie doll (oh the hardships she must have endured) , Mother Theresa gave every day for what amounted to 10 times the duration of Diana's stint as a Princess. I do feel the loss for Diana's children, and those that misguidedly took her as some sort of roll model. I do think it was tragic that 3 people lost their lives in such a brutal way, but let's not waste so much time on building emototional monuments to the loss of someone who owed our knowledge of her to luck--plain, dumb, LUCK. boots >The wisdom of Kate's conscious decision to avoid the media and not to become >just another celebrity is now apparent. See where Princess Diana's thirst for >celebrity got her. Now she's dead. I find it very interesting the >relationship of >talent and brilliance to who is meritorious of celebrity and how this has >worked in >Kate's favor. Princess Diana, who was a relatively talentless cutesy >air-head and >a former member of the Royal family, is admired and mourned by millions; >yet, Kate Bush, who has given the world more than Diana ever thought of, is >relatively >ignored. Brilliance is ignored while mediocrty is Glorified! Ain't the >world a twisted place. I hope I never live to see Kate Bush's death, but >when than time comes, she definitely deserves a state funeral. Kate has >character that Diana only wished she had. > >EC Morris >