I'm getting all freaked out by the news. All week the news in Belgium has been of people dying. First, there was this Belgian politician who fell off his ladder in his orchard. Then there was a TV presenter who killed herself. Then we get Farah Fawcett, and then Michael Jackson. All week, all we have been getting is obituaries.
At first, I had this vague feeling that something was going terribly wrong. Having thought about it, though - this was to be expected, and is bound to get worse. With the complete overload of celebrity culture, we are now reaching the time when all these celebrities are going to start dying. If thousands of people are famous, then it's news every time one of them drops off their perch. We should be expecting the age of fame to be replaced by the age of the celebrity obituary.
It will be interesting to see how the media respond to this, though. Are they going to stop the presses each time? Are personal tributes going to constitute half of the news? Perhaps a separate section will be added to radio and TV news programmes: after the sports news, but before the weather, we will get the celebrity obituaries. That's when celebrity culture comes to bite us all in the ass because it will be too depressing.
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Celebrities, like the rest of us, die. That's all there is to it. These things do seem to happen in clusters, don't they?
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