File spoon-archives/sa-cyborgs.archive/sa-cyborgs_1997/sa-cyborgs.9709, message 14


Date: Tue, 9 Sep 1997 10:12:25 +0800 (SST)
From: salil-AT-singnet.com.sg (Salil Tripathi)
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Theresa Di's]


Dear cestmoi,

Some of us are bothered by the excessiveness and the hyperbole, that's all.

>Princess Diana suffered an isolation not even a dog deserves.

Really, each of her moves was watched, celebrated on and commented. She was
invited to the best parties, and rock stars vied for her attention. She had
any number of good friends, and while she had the misfortune of marrying a
philandering rich husband, so do many others.

>Despite
>it, she was a loving mother to her own children...

So is my mother, my wife, and many, many millions of others. Nothing
enormously humanitarian about it.

> she loved the world's children;

I have two sons, 7 and 4. Both got irritated by the Diana coverage in the
media. My elder one asked: "Diana Diana Diana -- isn't there anything else
to write about?" My younger son refused to let me watch the funeral on TV
(which I needed to for my work as a journalist), saying "I'm not going to.
Enough is enough." This, from two of the world's children. Their lives were
not even remotely touched by Diana; nor that of their classmates, nor that
of many millions of children in the world.

Hey, my kids get greater joy in their lives from Dr Seuss and Panchatantra
tales and Aesop's fables than the image of a white fairy holding black and
brown babies.

And how much of her 22 million sterling pound bequest did she leave for the
world's children or for charity? Not a dime. How much for her own
already-rich kids? All of it. I don't blame her for it; but I'm trying to
place it in context.

>and as a public
>figure, turned her attention to causes that brought a little joy to the
>sick and the dying.

She turned her attention to causes that improved her public image, too.

>
>I'm surprised you seem not to consider Princess Diana's public works
>humanitarian.  In what currency do you deal?

Not hard currency, I can assure you.

Salil



   

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