I must say that she was much more understood than some people think. Personally, I've been confronted with many intelligent men and women who look down on me. I have dyslexia and express myself sometimes poorly. I'm not from a straightforward middle class family nor upbringing. Even on here I've been questioned on my posting of Dolly Parton being such an inspiration for me.
My mother's family was a six generation long string of dirt poor textile labourers. Nevertheless, my own Christian spirituality comes from them because anyone could feel Jesus Christ in their home. One just did. Staying at theirs during the summer months and playing in an empty spare bedroom I realised that having near to nothing materialistically didn't mean that there was less.
Au contraire, as a child I encountered not only other cultures and languages, because the television was set sometimes on the French channels, but also an earthy and much healthier connection with nature. I can write much more but I think that a short expression of the impressions that I personally felt already so long ago are now the most important thing to do.
In that sense I know that someone like Lord Kenneth Clark and his bringing art and culture to the people is sadly more from an age past already, but I do still recognize intelligence through the mist of pandering to people's stupidity these days. They tried to remake the late sixties documentary series Civilization under the title of Civilisations (sic). Of course, it failed miserably.
Most people nowadays don't have the obvious sensibility of a Lord Clark nor of a Dolly Parton. No, don't be a Don but be a Dolly instead. Mind you, it's nothing about politics but how one should be in ordinary life. I'll cut my monologue short now by this comparision that still matters. Have a look at the 1977 Barbara Walters interview with Dolly Parton and you'll discover a sentiment that's almost gone.
A real person taking the high road and not trying to compromise to bargain based sentiments of entitlement and oneupmanship. Dolly's nails were perhaps too long as a norm, but she was still a great gitarist in the seventies. Kenneth Clark was from wealth but he cared for others nevertheless. Not bowing to today's ills running through society but still expressing hope. It's all about being kind afterall. Sam Neill knew that too.
@jshm2 I'm not denying that either. Just putting forward the case that even now there are more people who understand. Just that. That's a comfort because it's indeed a struggle to keep up trying to be humble and righteous in the sense that those matter.
