Susan Boyle Fan Club and News

We all love the rags to riches stories, the fairy tales, to believe love conquers all, good trumps evil, and appearances deceive. The world has that with Paul Potts, now Susan Boyle. We look for the fairy tale folk in our midst for a reason.
During hard times people look for good things to hold on to, to symbols that reflect that there is a better life “out there.” That’s why movies were successful during the depression. That’s why we deify or slander leaders, because people become like characters in fairy tales. We revert to our childhood beliefs that the prince will come and find fair maiden. We hope for better times and look for them beyond our small world. Ordinary people during times like these can take on heroic proportions or become demonic in our eyes for things that are extraordinarily evil. That’s why a mother killing her child, Caylee, as Casey Anthony is accused of doing, or a woman raping a young girl, Sandra Cantu, an act where Melissa Huckaby is a suspect, also become elevated in the public consciousness, through media and through memory. These two are fairy tales, the evil ones; and just as we hope the good characters end up with a happy ending, we hope the bad ones fail.

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