QuietDom -> RE: What Are You Thinking About? (1/20/2007 10:41:01 AM)
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ORIGINAL: dcnovice Having seen The Queen last night, I'm puzzling over the tsunami of grief/hysteria unleashed by Princess Diana's death. Why such an outpouring of emotion? She was a celebrity. And modern Western culture worships celebrities. Even better than most celebrities, though, her life had an exceptionally blatant fantasy element that particularly appealed to celeb-worshippers. After all, most celebs have to act or sing in order to become rich and famous, while she simply had to fit into a cynically-manufactured role as a symbol of beauty and purity, and she had all the fairy-tale trappings like castles and a prince on top of it all.
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