Justin: Hey, do you know if Michael Jackson's funeral is tomorrow? Supposed to be like a big thing
Me: Don't know. I thought it was yesterday with that big ceremony, wasn't it "it"? Why people wouldn't just leave him rest in peace, yet still try to drag on with these pompous ceremony?
As we kept on our small conversation I thought about people's fascination with MJ's remains and all these ceremonies the media keeps publicizing. The man is long gone, he does not exist anymore physically and yet there's such public fascination and buzz around his name. Zizek wrote once about immortality that Mao and Stalin gained even when they were alive and that their alter-selves kept on living while they kept their own private stupid lives. Isn't it a similar case? Does it mean that Michael Jackson actually ceased to exist long before his physical death occured this month? That ultimately his physical death was just an empty ritual; another sort of dramatic stage dance that he might have staged? Isn't it why everyone could not believe that the death has occured again, twice actually? I mean who dies twice, right?
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Yep, u are right, not everyone dies twice.
It's funny because I have the impression that Michael Jackson hated all those mediatized events; he had to deal with them because his family pushed him to and he had debts to pay. He had no choice, and I dont know if he even enjoyed singing and dancing when he got older. It was only business and it is still now.
Actually his funeral is so well organised and controlled that now we keep me mind the image of Michael Jackson only before the child abuse charges. That young MJ broke sales record.
So I would say that we are currently "celebrating" the young MJ, not the ugly disturbed pedophile. The 1st one will live very very long, but cannot tell the same about the other one.
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