When a famous actor dies early of a terrible disease, people generally talk about how many golden globes they would have won, the roles that made their stardom, how they battled the illness and there’s a general air of gossip and shallowness.
What they don’t talk about is what the figure represented to people philosophically, yet this is what their fans are rallying behind implicitly.
Patrick Swayze represented the ‘can do’ America I once knew and revered. In fact, it’s one of the last things and, now one of the only remaining things there is to revere about America.
