> On Oct 12, 9:03 pm, Tim Howard suddenlink.net> wrote:

>> big...@shout.net wrote:

>>> Jurors Weep At Diana Crash Scene
>>> (Conspiracy Nation, 10/11/07) - On Monday, members of the Diana
>>> inquest jury wept at the scene of the Princess's fatal August 1997 car
>>> crash. ("Tears As Jurors See Diana Crash Scene," by Richard Palmer and
>>> Jo Willey. Daily Express (U.K.), October 9, 2007)

>> This is how paranoid we have become. Even though Diana was killed right
>> in the middle of a huge city for everyone to see, and who was involved
>> and how it happened were clear, still a few conspiracy theory nuts come
>> up with alternative ideas and enough people believe it to the point
>> there is an inquest. And for whom? A princess, a pop-culture icon.
>> It's not as if she was an important head of state. But this conspiracy
>> cannot be blamed only on the "Diana Cult", as Journalist Alexander
>> Cockburn termed it shortly after her demise. No, societies in America
>> and Europe (perhaps all over the world for all I know) have become
>> paranoid to the point that some people will not believe even the most
>> strait-forward and obvious explanations for anything.

>
> I think it goes a little deeper than that, what with tradition and
> Royalty and the history of celebrity, there are very good reasons for
> the current post-modern media being grafted on top of this pre-
> existing architecture of social capital and media groupies.
>