OK Pooka, if your perception is that we get more personally unpleasant I must accept your judgement. I suppose not only did us lefties think she did bad things she was also very personally unpleasant on all kinds of levels.

But I would like to explore the other strand of this discussion and out of laziness re-enter part of my ealier post:

When folksongs are re-generated in the oral tradition the old songs may be lost but not destroyed, but I do like the idea of the passing on and adding to. Is this concept alive in other aspects of human experience?

The Watts Tower was built, I think by one man (help me here someone) but he certainly built on it over a long time. If we move from the individual to the communal and from the permanent to the developmental things become much more interesting

What about that , was it a blanket?, made from thousands of individual squares to commemerate victims of AIDS. I remember communally decorating curtains in the Co-op Hall in Chorlton, Manchester, UK with Woodcraft Folk.

Can we join in a more constructive way? Although I am still with those who feel the beheading was constructive and it has considerable historic precedence!

Cheers