When Facebook Becomes Blogging

 It really is astounding. The most beloved public figure of a generation was literally obsessed with opera and chased performances of it for seventy years the way younger people plan vacations around bands. Her office was wall to wall opera memorabilia. It was her entire social life fron 1950 to 2020 and if she she didn't know as much about it as any nerd who posts 100x a day on classical music message boards it's because unlike us, she had a life. She so passed her love of opera to children that her son founded and runs his own exclusively classical record label (Cedille Records). People so loved her and wanted to walk her path that they would name their children after her, they'd dress as her, they'd tattoo her on their bodies, but so hate opera for unfathomable reasons that the one most easily replicable thing they could do to be like her, get inside her headspace, understand what gave her the will to keep struggling, was a bridge too far. Even RBG couldn't bring America back to opera and it was literally the passion of her life:It really is astounding. The most beloved public figure of a generation was literally obsessed with opera and chased performances of it for seventy years the way younger people plan vacations around bands. Her office was wall to wall ipera memorabilia. It was her entire social life fron 1950 to 2020 and if she she didn't know as much about it as any nerd who posts 100x a day on classical music message boards it's because unlike us, she had a life. She so passed her love of opera to children that her son founded and runs his own exclusively classical record label (Cedille Records). People so loved her and wanted to walk her path that they would name their children after her, they'd dress as her, they'd tattoo her on their bodies, but so hate opera for unfathomable reasons that the one most easily replicable thing they could do to be like her, get inside her headspace, understand what gave her the will to keep struggling, was a bridge too far. Even RBG couldn't bring America back to opera and it was literally the passion of her life: