Have some reconditioned Shakespeare

[snorkackcatcher]

The evil that women do lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones. So let it be with Thatcher.

Since I'm a mean person, I wonder how many extra hits this is getting?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-BZIWSI5UQ

Comments

[nineveh_uk]

Quite a lot by the look of it, and deservedly so. I have no patience with the "be nice" brigade.

[snorkackcatcher]

I feel more uncomfortable than I thought I might with the whole dancing on her grave thing, but I'm definitely not mourning and I fully understand the anger that provokes that kind of reaction. After all, Thatcherism metastasised into the policies the current Oedipocracy are pushing out, it's not like it's a philosophy from the remote past that has no resonance any more. I likewise see no need to be nice about it.

[mayfly_78]

Hm. Why specifically the evil than women do? And don't you want to say so let it NOT be with Thatcher.

I didn't like her or agree with her politics, but I get no joy from her death. She was an old woman no longer active in politics.

Sorry to be a wet rag.

[snorkackcatcher]

Ah. That was the "reconditioned Shakespeare" reference:

"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar"

So bury her, don't praise her. Dancing on her grave might be rather too unkind, but I see no reason to be polite about her legacy, which is still screwing things up and will doubtless continue to do so for a good while yet.

[jo_blogs]

I'm not concerned about being kind or unkind to Thatcher. History will decide her legacy and although I haven't followed the news closely over the last couple of days, I'm glad to see there have been at least some reports focusing on her as a political figure and what her policies did, and not on her as an individual. I don't care for the way she's being demonised in some quarters i.e. in unpleasantly gendered terms because she was a woman in a position of power (calling her a witch and so on). It says a lot about the people doing it and nothing about her legacy. But I wouldn't expect anything else.

I looked forward to tramping the dirt down for long time and played the song when I heard she was dead because I always said I would, so I suppose I'm mean too ;). However, it didn't give me much satisfaction given that in hindsight her term in power seems like a relatively innocent time compared to what came after her.