Posted on 12/28/2016 12:18:42 PM PST by a fool in paradise
Carrie Fisher...who the hell cares!!!
when some old drug addicted country music star dies, we will just remind people in FR to not get all weepy...WHO CARES!
It's a New Orleans thing.
The first line of the parade is the musicians.
The people who follow along afterwards sort of marching and sort of dancing are the second line.
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Princess Leia is Princess Diana all over again.
Sure, the adulation and the tributes and the public mourning get out of hand.
But just when you start to get tired of it all and want to complain, the attackers, haters, and naysayers start up and have their own little party just as self-indulgent as the other one.
Best to just ignore the whole thing and wake up when it's over.
So...she did her job, which was to act. And people spent their free market money to see her do just that.
Its called Capitalism. Some people get upset about that.
For someone that supposedly doesn’t care, he sure is whining about this a whole lot.
“Carrie Fisher...who the hell cares!!!”
You.
They are people who need Jesus. Period. 1 Corinthians 5.
This thread leans toward the dark side. Sad.
Didn’t your momma teach you that it is rude to post cruel, condemning and judgmental posts on a thread about a dead person? May I suggest you start your own thread- Things I Hate About Celebrity Deaths- and thrash it up there? Your vitriol here just looks like sour grapes and does nothing thing for your standing among the cool kids.
I wish the Force was with you.
Musician Allen Toussaint’s second line from 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVjjlZkVHdM
He was famous for songs from Fortune Teller, Working In A Coal Mine, on down to Southern Nights.
and from 2016:
David Bowie second line in New Orleans with Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Arcade Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlAlWr4AppA
They can be held in connection with a funeral or an absent tribute.
looks like fun. nice tribute to a interesting character in a great movie series
And of course they can do it all again during their Mardi Gras parade.
Not emotionally distraught, FRiend. Just sympathetic. And empathetic, too, toward her mother, for reasons that are nobody’s business and won’t be discussed here.
However, perhaps you need to take a good hard look at your life, if other people’s expressions of compassion send you into such apoplectic rage.
Why other people get joy in crushing other’s feelings is beyond me, but they are everywhere. Something sick.
Others here have described the meaning of “second line.” I would add only that the practice is frequently associated with another New Orleans custom, the “jazz funeral.”
The first half of the jazz funeral, where the casket is escorted to the cemetery by the paraders, is sad.The music is morose and dirge-like.
The song St. James Infirmary is traditionally included.
After the casket is interred, the mourners leave the cemetery and parade thru the streets, celebrating the deceased’s life with joyous music, dancing, revelry. The song Didn’t S/He Ramble is a favorite.
The second liners often twirl colorful open parasols.
I just don’t like the Bacchus thing, especially since Mardi Gras was at least at one time a Christian celebration.
Absolutely. They never seem to realize they’re saying more about themselves than the deceased person whose family they’re disrespecting.
It would be so much wiser to say nothing at all.
No not an apocalyptic rage but merely an observation about a culture in decline. When people are so devoid of substance that they project their hopes, fears and desires on flawed “celebrities” they don’t really know and ascribe to them characteristics and virtues that are absurd, it underscores a vapidity and decline in that culture that should not be ignored. It is particularly disheartening when some otherwise sensible people on FR demonstrate a susceptibility to this nonsense.
Apoplectic, not apocalyptic. Look it up.
You’ve gone to great lengths to express your opinion on this subject.
I suppose I should be impressed by your perseverence.
There are so many other opportunities on FR to expound on cultural decline; the DEATH of any person—particularly one in whom you have no interest or knowledge—is just, IMO, an opportunity best declined, if for no other reason than such spewings reflect poorly on oneself and conservatives in general. The one kicking the corpse is most assuredly the one who will be quoted in the mainstream press, you can bet on it.
The result can be unnecessary pain to the deceased’s family.
I’m done.
Have the last word if you like.
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