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Michael Jackson


It's amazing to me that I suddenly don't mind listening to Michael Jackson music anymore.  The idea of listening, let alone buying any of his music, repulsed me for the last 15 years until just today.  The old enabling a child molester thing I guess.

Suddenly I take great joy in the wonderful artist he truly was.  What a very sad and tragic figure.  I hope wherever he is now he has found some peace.

But what a superstar he was!  I doubt we'll ever see his like again in our lifetimes.

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I've experienced pretty much the same series of feelings.

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Like other celebrities, his exploitation in life and death is a collective illness in which those exploiting him for money before the age of majority should bear the greatest responsibility for failing to protect him as a human being from fame's intoxicating yet lethally disloyal whim.

Also, celebrity takes too much time from ordinary people honoring one another.

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opinionitis: the condition in which a person must express an opinion about pervasive things, thus annoying fellow sufferers of the pervasion.

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