Re: Kate vs. Diana

[moonboots@earthling.net (Boots)]

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
>