The glorified backup singer Sheryl Crow, no less star-struck but considerably more perceptive, puts the whole Stones legacy in perspective when she says: "I will never know what it is like to be the kind of rock star the Stones are.
Stone's legacy, Berman notes, is seen today in the journalistic reflex "to focus so intently on the deeds and misdeeds of our own government as to blind ourselves sometimes to other ghastly goings-on around the world".
Fidel Castro's ashes were encased in a large granite boulder on Sunday, in a ceremony that capped nine days of public mourning in Cuba that aimed to literally set in stone the legacy for one of the 20th century's most influential figures.
A project five months in the making, entitled The Legacy Stone, had finally been completed.
But that doesn't stop The Legacy Stone from affecting the conversation.
However, this was the artist's first foray political commentary, which predictably turned The Legacy Stone into a polarizing issue.
While The Legacy Stone has spun out of control, quite a lot of thought and planning was put into its execution.
Other publications took this idea further, including Breitbart attempting to associate The Legacy Stone with a series of threatening tweets by simply embedding them together in the same article.
China immediately puts that interpretation to rest, explaining, "The Legacy Stone is meant to specifically target Donald Trump, but in the media it's been just as divisive as the election itself.
"It spells the determination of the government of Afghanistan to set an agenda of peace, and to set it in stone as a legacy for the next generations".
He fumbled the ball, set his legacy in stone.
