What Britney Owes

  I have long maintained that Britney Spears and her long, slow descent into what appears to be madness and dissolution are simply a mirror of our larger culture. 

This girl was trained from the beginning to amuse us. Now that she is no longer sexy, no longer a convenient screen onto which we may conveniently project our frustrated desires, she amuses us by falling apart in public.

What a hoot.

The Mighty Favog today has a great post detailing another, final act of service Britney owes us.

He writes:

BRIT MUST DIE. Because we demand it.

We won't admit that, any of us, but it doesn't make it any less so. If the bitch lives, the narrative is dramatically compromised. And even reality TV needs a compelling dramatic narrative . . . and redemption is so f-ing Bing Crosby playing yet another Catholic priest in an old black-and-white movie, you know?

Nope. The ho gotta go.

It is better for us that one Britney should die instead of the people, so that the whole nation may not perish. See, if this Greek tragedy in a modern Rome doesn't conclude with a media riot in a cemetery in Kentwood, La., we shall not be spared.

There will be a defective morality play to deal with. Then there will be ourselves to deal with.

If Brit doesn't die, then we're not any better than her, ultimately. Losers die while people laugh. We're not dead, and we're unaware of the laughter, so we're not losers. Or at least not as bad a loser as Britney Spears, who could not overcome being hillbilly trailer trash, alas.

Which is why she couldn't deal with all the drink, drugs, divorce, promiscuity, selfishness and extreme materialism. Or with the mental illness.

Read the whole great post here.

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Comments

[Lauren]

Poor girl. We really need to pray for her.

[Robin]

My husband commented last week that he would love to offer our home as a sanctuary to her. We live in the middle of nowhere, very far from LA, where she could remain anonymous as long as she liked. The child needs a break and a lot of healing.