Michael Jackson's Death: Nonsense

Michael Jackson's death; what nonsense. That's guarenteed to get attention but not to the most interesting aspect of Jackson and his contemporaries in other industries. To me it was poetic justice that Bernie Madoff was sent to prison just after the date of Michael Jackson's death. I don't want to pass judgement on Jackson himself, his songs quite evidently touched billions of people and regardless of his eccentricities and the allegations against him, he led a life that few of us can comprehend. What it more says to me is the veneration of a man to ludicrous lengths, as we do all the time. Blur played an unbelievable set on Sunday night, only spoilt by my dumping two days later, still i've still got this is a low. But why is Jackson so unbelievably venerated when the death of Allbarn would raise barely a squeal? He was a commodity, he sold and when he wasn't sellable he had no purpose. Yes Jacko is far more popular but not in proportion (in this country at least) to the reaction. Perhaps Jacko's death is on Reagan's hands as much as our current bankrupt conception of economics is on Friedman's.