Mr. R.
I am confused as to why the death of Ronald Wilson Reagan matters.
I was going to post this as a comment in Keith's journal but somehow that felt inappropriate, so here it is.
I'm not mourning. This is not a situation where I find the loss of human life tragic -- he was ninety fucking three after all. He died of natural causes. Death is NOT always a tragedy, sometimes it is just what's supposed to happen. To wit, I also didn't mourn when my great-grandmother died. She was a hundred and three. She'd been waiting to die for nearly a decade -- it was obvious when you saw her, or talked to her.
Anyway. I'm also not cheering his death, though I'm surely not a fan of the man. He did a lot of bad things. I don't really get the people doing the silly cheering though -- I mean, how does it make any sense? There's no way this could be seen as some kind of karmic punishment for past sins. The decade (or more) of alzheimer's maybe, but not his death now.
Anyway. His death is meaningless. It is literally devoid of meaning. There's no message to be learned, no important lesson to be derived. He was an old man who died. He just happened to have been President of the United states for a while first. And all the various people who are deriving some kind of meaning from it are just deluding themselves.
I was going to post this as a comment in Keith's journal but somehow that felt inappropriate, so here it is.
I'm not mourning. This is not a situation where I find the loss of human life tragic -- he was ninety fucking three after all. He died of natural causes. Death is NOT always a tragedy, sometimes it is just what's supposed to happen. To wit, I also didn't mourn when my great-grandmother died. She was a hundred and three. She'd been waiting to die for nearly a decade -- it was obvious when you saw her, or talked to her.
Anyway. I'm also not cheering his death, though I'm surely not a fan of the man. He did a lot of bad things. I don't really get the people doing the silly cheering though -- I mean, how does it make any sense? There's no way this could be seen as some kind of karmic punishment for past sins. The decade (or more) of alzheimer's maybe, but not his death now.
Anyway. His death is meaningless. It is literally devoid of meaning. There's no message to be learned, no important lesson to be derived. He was an old man who died. He just happened to have been President of the United states for a while first. And all the various people who are deriving some kind of meaning from it are just deluding themselves.