Comments Related To: Michael Jackson's death: Strange Facts

that is so true, when he lived, he was a child molester, he was all the things that everyone could point fingers at but today everyone is buying his cd's ! crazy complex world we have, i tell you!

Sheer hipocrisy, I would say.

Society is very interesting to examine and sometimes too complicated to understand. I feel that when he was alive, Jackson was constantly bombarded with negative media and that most people who were presented in the news were those against Jackson. In other words, a lot of the attention was on the case of molestation and the people who tagged him as guilty for the crime. When he died, however, the media reverted to positive images of tears for his life and the buying of his CDs. Perhaps the reason for this change in positive attention and accolades is because of the delicate nuances of funerals and death in our society and how we respect those who have passed away. Or perhaps, people have recognized the role they played in Jackson's spiraling downfall.


I really enjoyed this quotation from the article: "We all asked for more and more until in the end he had nothing more to give." This statement is the truth of human nature. We want more and more until we are no longer capable of maintaining the heavy load of what we have insatiablty sought after and acquired. It is a sad natural tendency.

Thanks for your comment. I think that we, as society, were guilty of pushing a number of stars too far and not everyone is a Madonna. She seems to love the limelight, but other people, like Presley, find they just can't handle it. Of course one has to understand that their managers are also often to blame for pushing too hard. A pop star's life is really over at 50; they are no longer 'with it', no longer sexy, and the youth have moved on to other things and other people.