Sometimes I find the way people react to the news is more interesting than the news itself. In this world of instant news and non-stop social media, the reactions become newsworthy in themselves, and the reactions to the reactions and the reactions to the reactions to the reactions, in an infinite regression.
RIP Nelson Mandela
There were two things people were talking about today, and one of them was a TV presentation of a stage play of The Sound of Music, and lots of people were outraged (seriously, outraged. Not miffed or mildly annyed or slightly put out) that anybody should dare to desecrate the perfection that was the 1964 (or thereabouts – I’m not going to look it up) film. I’ve seen the film, it was O.K., I also remember the Mad Magazine version, The Sound of Money (dough, means cash, for all of us, ray! for musicals like this….) but people need to lighten up, great movies get remade. Even movies that sucked sometimes get remade. Also, they probably should learn the difference between a movie and a play.
The other, of course, was the death of Nelson Mandela. I must confess, his death took me by surprise because I thought he was already dead. I suppose that’s the kind of misunderstanding that can arise when you live to 95.
The vast majority of the comments, of course, were basic “RIP” type comments, but my cousin the Rabbi somehow made it about Mandela’s relationship to the Jews, and Rick “Santorum” Santorum, who is probably getting ready for a 2016 run for the White House his own self, commented that Mandela’s struggle against apartheid is similar to his fight against Obamacare.
I’m sure glad Rick is no longer politically relevant. At least, I hope he’s not.
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