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THE reverberations from the death of some well-known individuals are an interesting phenomenon.
Those who did not know the dead person except as a media construct experience a very real and at times overpowering sense of loss. When Princess Diana died in 1997 you could almost feel it — an unnerving experience and there wasn’t social media around at the time to blame that on.
It seems that the majority of people of a certain age in the overdeveloped world are being carried along by an irresistible current of emotion and are, for the moment at least, incapable of serious reflection.
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