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Later haters
Jun. 27th, 2009 09:01 amSoon it will be time enough to reassert what you think is necessary, but give it 3 days at least, perhaps a week.
It's like you're the ones who can't remember! There's been almost nothing but public vilification for many years now. Allow a time out where people can remember the other parts, the time before all that. It's customary in our culture to go easy on the newly dead, allow at least 3 days.
I've read comparisons to Hitler and feminist rant about how evil patriarchy just covers up all allegations. Suggestions that people wanting to just celebrate the music and the talent that created it are what's so wrong with our society.
To me what is wrong with our society is this obsession with seeing things in such black and white terms and rushing to judge others badly. I challenge you to find anyone who hasn't done both good and bad in their lifetimes, who doesn't have both good and bad qualities, whether you love or hate that person.
Some people manage to do both in a hugely larger than life way. Neither one negates the other, and looking at both shows more of who a person was, but we've had 20 years of mostly just the hate and mocking of a troubled soul.
Lets pass him through to the next phase with some acknowledgment and appreciation of the good bits. We will surely return to more negative views and to all the other pressing issues of the day, the wars, the environment, the economy, etc soon.
I never had MTV so I hardly saw any of the videos and I was always mixed in opinion of the 80s music, but I remember and honor the intensity of growing up in the midst of girls his same age who adored him in all earnest innocence and passion.
It's not glorifying someone who _might_ have done horrible things as an adult. It's remembering a child being loved by other children, and he needs that now.
You'll have your chance to go back to hating later.
It's like you're the ones who can't remember! There's been almost nothing but public vilification for many years now. Allow a time out where people can remember the other parts, the time before all that. It's customary in our culture to go easy on the newly dead, allow at least 3 days.
I've read comparisons to Hitler and feminist rant about how evil patriarchy just covers up all allegations. Suggestions that people wanting to just celebrate the music and the talent that created it are what's so wrong with our society.
To me what is wrong with our society is this obsession with seeing things in such black and white terms and rushing to judge others badly. I challenge you to find anyone who hasn't done both good and bad in their lifetimes, who doesn't have both good and bad qualities, whether you love or hate that person.
Some people manage to do both in a hugely larger than life way. Neither one negates the other, and looking at both shows more of who a person was, but we've had 20 years of mostly just the hate and mocking of a troubled soul.
Lets pass him through to the next phase with some acknowledgment and appreciation of the good bits. We will surely return to more negative views and to all the other pressing issues of the day, the wars, the environment, the economy, etc soon.
I never had MTV so I hardly saw any of the videos and I was always mixed in opinion of the 80s music, but I remember and honor the intensity of growing up in the midst of girls his same age who adored him in all earnest innocence and passion.
It's not glorifying someone who _might_ have done horrible things as an adult. It's remembering a child being loved by other children, and he needs that now.
You'll have your chance to go back to hating later.
