Nothing improves character so much as death. I once knew a man, Pete by name, who abused his family unmercifully, stole, robbed, lied, cheated, and was suspected of at least one murder. Pete himself came to a violent end at the hands of an unknown assailant who may have been of the opinion he was performing a public service. Others thought so. Within a day of Pete's demise, however, somebody recalled a good deed the deceased had once performed, possibly an incident in which he had met a stranger on a lonely road and hadn't robbed him. Soon, even his victims were concluding that he hadn't been such a bad sort after all, merely misunderstood. Then someone recalled that the fellow had been a good worker on occasion, and someone else remembered his actually having paid a debt. By the time of the funeral, the man's character had improved so much that he had become one of the town's leading citizens, widely revered for his acts of charity, courage, honesty, and kindness, and if he had a fun-loving tendency to pull the occasional prank, why that was to be forgiven on the grounds that nobody is perfect.
Hmmm, this sounds like something that's happening even now but I ain't naming names. No sir. Anyways, I don't watch television, and I especially don't watch television now that I no longer get an analog signal. I'm supposed to get digital reception, which I do not have. And I truly doubt I'm going to be getting digital satellite or a heavy duty digital antennae anytime too soon. Living in the woods in a valley the reception sucks but that's alright by me. The less I am contaminated by the mass media I figure. However as far as the media coverage goes, I hear reports from fellow students and can see from just glancing at the papers that this situation is playing out all over again, but I ain't naming names here, although I might be pointing a finger...
9 comments:
Cripes, my feelings exactly. Great humanitarian??? Not by my standards.
You nailed it exactly. I alluded to it myself today.
That was perfect.
I don't often restrain myself, but I'll restrain myself from cutting and pasting that onto the blog of someone still mourning a recent celebrity death to the point that they compared him to the Jew zeus. oy vey.
But I digress- PERFECT. Thanks
Hmmmmmm did someone die? hmmmmm...I watched the weather channel they didn't mention anything.
Course, ya know, when Bill O'Reilly dies he will be lauded as the greatest orator since Cato.
I heard he cured cancer, saved baby seals from a death by bludgeoning and reunited Ray and Dave Davies.
More like, nothing sells as well as death and no one wants to stop the money parade once it's going.
People are about to get even stupider now.
It creeped me out when I learned that obits were in the can for every celebrity on the planet. Anything they say about somebody who died is already written. Yech.
I do get it, truly I do
I would like to point out that the opposite is also true - many are demonized in life
Diane--true, true, I agree with you entirely.
What I hate is that the masses of people in this country are diverted from news they really need to hear/see/learn about but instead they are amused/entertained/mollified with the fake news cycle instead. The sheer amount of coverage concerning this celebrity death is just ridiculous in the extreme.
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