Someday, archaeologists studying our age will wonder why we were so scared of some deity called ‘2016’ that we took to social media to ask it to stop taking all our celebrities away from us. The death of the artist once and formerly and then once again known as Prince has triggered yet another of this year’s predictable rounds of conspicuous grief and social media mourning, crowding out rational thought on a tide of emotion and nostalgia.
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James Morrow blogs at www.prickwithafork.com
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