The Pop Culture Death Trap, Part 3: Grief and Immortality
Through the act of collective mourning, we elevate dead celebrities to near-divinity. The need is both a primitive and a decidedly American one: to define ourselves by something other than an alienating individualism. And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter. -- Acts 17:32 It was a fine cry - loud and long - but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow. -- Toni Morrison, Sula As we witnessed rather extravagantly after Michael Jackson's untimely, if [...]










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