Wonderful post. What a very sad end to a sad life. Someone that on the surface had so so much, but deep inside had so very little.
I’ve always been quite back and fourth about MJ, regarding his ‘troubles’. I always aired on the side that he had in fact done ‘something’ ‘wrong’ with them children. I honestly don’t know for sure so I try and see past that.
Either way, his charity work has helped millions, and his music has entertained a generation and beyond including myself.
I like many others was nothing short of devestated to hear about this. I hope he is resting in peace.
The Age of Jackson [John Derbyshire]
I heartily applaud Jonah’s nicely balanced, commendably sour refusal to celebrate Michael Jackson’s peculiar life in the same gushing spirit the media has displayed. Sourpuss refusals to go along with gushy media enthusiasms are a part of what we’re about here at NRO, and long may that remain so.
Working up my Radio Derb transcript here, I find I’ve been chastened by the concurrent death of Farrah Fawcett, who was only twenty months younger than me. I hear footsteps coming up the driveway, and shall keep perfectly still till they’ve gone, as I hope and trust they will. In that spirit, I’m trying hard to find something positive to say about the guy the media were calling “the Gloved One” the last time I paid any attention, which I see was a decade or two ago.
All I could come up with was that Jackson, like Fawcett, was a relic of the time when we were a single nation, listening to the same pop songs, going to the same movies, sticking the same babe posters on our bedroom walls, laughing at the same jokes, even giving our kids names from a common stock. Whether Jackson should be extravagantly mourned or not, I leave to you to decide; but that era of national-cultural unity surely should be. Requiescat in pace.
Parents don’t realize how they can permanently damage a *Child’s Spirit* the way they look upon themselves...He was a child beaten by his controlling father, made to perform like a *Seal* in a circus act....and this is the end result...
Maybe GOD finally said *Michael* time to come home, where you will fianlly find the Peace and Love you never have had..
His parents are the ones here, that will have to reflect and feel the pain of loosing their child.........