Tag Susan Boyle

We live in a world in which the ephemeral is real and the real is, for many, hopefully only ephemeral. How else to explain the religious obsession with celebrity which governs everything in our lives from the way we see…

Susan Boyle, a 47 year old woman, showed up on Britain’s Got Talent. She was way awkward during the intro, seemed seriously out of her depth, and said her dream was to sing before an audience. The jaded audience looked…