Real News and Role Models In Decline!
Important, viable news stories rarely permeate our culture these days, especially in the world of entertainment.
I don’t know if you’ve seen it (or ever care to), but a certain celebrity has been splashed onto the cover of the latest issue of “Rolling Stone”. She has been declared by said magazine to be “An American Tragedy”. I started laughing hysterically, which, when you have a bad cold, became less laughing and more severe coughing fit. Oh well.
The only American tragedy I see is people believing in stories like this. How sad and desperate do the media think we are to care this much about a sex-driven, careless, twenty-something who has had a mental breakdown because of her parental enforced prostitution (i.e. pop music career)? No one in their right mind would consider this girl to be some crucial American anything, never mind important enough to be on the cover of a magazine. A tragedy, yes; important, no.
These are the things that make me wish we could zoom the Queen back to the age of 25, young, glamorous, and completely devoid of the recent disease called ‘manic attention seeking’. You know, someone who is truly newsworthy. That way, the youth of today may be able to relate to her and (God love us!) begin to emulate her.
As a society we are losing a valuable aspect - respect for oneself. The Queen has always had respect for herself and the job she does; Her Majesty never took it for granted and instead of a feverish sensation-seeker, we have a woman who simply took her place among the annals of history. The Queen brings attention to herself just by being herself, and that self is someone who is elegant, refined, yet tantalizingly dismissive of airs and graces.
Elizabeth didn’t seek personal glory. She wasn’t constantly obsessing over her personal appearance so that her picture would turn out perfectly in the papers. The Queen wasn’t about concocting the latest stunt or publicity gag that would turn heads, she simply drove past and smiled. Elizabeth dressed in the serious manner she expected to be taken. Her work was paramount. The Queen cared.
She still cares. That’s more than you can say about any high-profile woman in the U.S. today (except for Oprah. Maybe.). Does everything have to be trashy or trendy to get attention? Can’t we have a break from all of that for a little while?
Apparently I have had this rant building up for some time! Sheesh. Thanks for listening though. I really hope to help make some sort of difference in this world one day, and if that’s by posting my annoyance and dismay over the course our world is taking, and one person listens, so be it.
By Mandy
