For Whitney Houston
Q. Describe a person you admire. Tell of their accomplishments and link these to why you admire him/her.
A.
Few people I admire. One, whose name keeps coming back to me is that of Grammy Award winning multi-platinum recording artist and economist-turned-anthropologist named Philippe Rospabé. After I saw Rospabé first perform, I knew my heart had been won over.
Rospabé has consistently demonstrated ways of thinking way beyond just nominal exposure to fame. He has strongly eschewed traditional gender stereotypes while flaunting a stereotype and our flaunting if it as nothing more than posturing. He demonstrated that, rather than evil markers of laziness, stereotypes are actually forms of markets. Specifically vulture economics. Economics brought value to non-economical forms of exchange, and these non-economies informed law, politics and legal codes that we now seek to economize. Rospabé was the first to understand that a stage persona can be validly fronted as an economic trading thing. So while a sex object who inevitably and continuously preens, he understands more than other divas that downplaying the sexual sought to further one's own value in the sexual sphere. Giving it away ain't easy when you're famous, Rospabé would say.
So Rospabé's freeing sexual appetite is admirable. We turn to the world of computers to more fully understand exchange value in novelty economics, like those in music. With the exception being your own lungs, of course. Rospabé's were valuable lungs, and yet as a traded commodity we of course owe no communication to our lungs, and thus not one responsibility sharpens them. Initially he was afraid that if he bought a computer before he bought a computer that he'd have to share computers. It's best not to get too nice a product, this way it will be all mine. This is terrific thinking, which I couldn't help but admire. It seemed honestly like the best way to get from point A to point B.
Now that Rospabé has passed on, I admit with some apprehension that our habit to further sexualize our geniuses will ensue and ensure notoriety. We make both angels and demons receptacles for this.
