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Susan Boyle and the lost link
by
Mario Persona
It's one or the other: either that
neanderthalesque look, with disheveled hair,
little eyes covered by huge thick eyebrows and
rosy cheeks, is a practical joke, or the program
"Britain's Got Talent" has found the
missing link.
Actually it's neither. That caricature of a woman
is Susan Boyle and her presence on stage opens a
Pandora’s Box of mockery. When Susan reveals
her dream to be a professional singer, like
Elaine Paige, one third of her weight, the
audience debauches.
In the jury, the actress Amanda Holden, joined by
the skeptic Piers Morgan and the acetic Simon
Cowell, is striving to look as neutral as
possible, but her beautiful face seems to say:
"This will be fun." That's only until
the voice of Susan touches the first chords of
"I dreamed a dream." Then Amanda's
mouth opens in disbelief.
The audience goes into a state of delirium. In a
few days Susan Boyle is seen over a hundred
million times on Youtube and many more times in
global media. The title of Victor Hugo's novel,
"Les misérables," which the song
evokes is emblematic.
Susan Boyle is a miserable singing for
miserables. Ugly, with a learning disability and
without ever having had a boyfriend, she is
everything any of us would not like to be, but
are. However, when she starts to sing even Amanda
Holden wants to be Susan. Amanda stands up to
applaud and the camera contrasts her slim body
with the silhouette of that cannon thundering on
stage.
Perhaps it is not correct to say that we 'are'
miserable, but that we 'are momentarily'
miserable, just as today Susan 'is momentarily'
ugly and Amanda 'is momentarily' beautiful. In
fifty years Amanda, now sensual, will look like a
cannon, and her skin, now peachy, will be as
wrinkled as a ripen passion fruit. The audience
and the jury applaud because they cheer for Susan
and for themselves, also deprived of love and
perfection, only under different cosmetic layers.
Strange we humans! The standards of goodness,
justice and beauty we look for are far above
which we can achieve. Where does this comes from?
We live on earth, but gaze at the stars, because
we have in us a sense of infinity. It is as if
God had planted eternity in our hearts. Or did
He?
The paradox, however, is that we humans, though
capable of great feats and thoughts infinitely
above any other living being, are also capable of
atrocities never seen in the most terrible
irrational beast. We kill our children to eat
them at dinner, but we can also create an
infinite number of filigree from only seven
perfect musical notes, as Susan is doing on
stage.
And when she sings, she reminds us that there is
dignity in us humans that goes beyond which can
be seen. It is the divine breath, which no animal
has. For this reason God did not give up on us
and wanted to become a perfect human being, in
Jesus, though looking miserable in His outer
appearance.
This is why we cheer for Susan Boyle, the same
way we cheer for the Beast of Beauty, the
hunchback of Notre Dame and Frodo (from "The
Lord of the Rings") with his hairy feet,
living under the influence of the temptation of
the ring. We identify ourselves with failed
heroes because we believe we can still be loved,
redeemed and transformed out of this miserable
condition. It is as if we were missing Paradise.
Susan Boyle is not the missing link. She revealed
that the link exists, but not to an ancestral
ape. Under that ugly, miserable and transient
appearance we could see a being created in the
image of God. It was not a stranger on stage. On
that stage I saw myself as God sees me and loves
me. And I saw you.
Mario
Persona é consultor, escritor e palestrante.
Veja em www.mariopersona.com.br
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