http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/06/27/rip-michael-jackson-1959-1984/ Homegrown counterculture Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:38:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/06/27/rip-michael-jackson-1959-1984/comment-page-1/#comment-174845 Uland Sat, 27 Jun 2009 19:14:39 +0000 http://www.arthurmag.com/?p=8064#comment-174845 I think people aren't comfortable with the fascination MJ invokes in so many unless it's in the context of worship or total scorn. I think media doesn't know how to handle it, or doesn't want to try. It's fascinating because it's all there, I think. It's all grotesque spectacle, from start to finish. I'm hoping a really great writer writes the definitive MJ book. I'll read it. I think people aren’t comfortable with the fascination MJ invokes in so many unless it’s in the context of worship or total scorn. I think media doesn’t know how to handle it, or doesn’t want to try. It’s fascinating because it’s all there, I think. It’s all grotesque spectacle, from start to finish.
I’m hoping a really great writer writes the definitive MJ book. I’ll read it.

]]> http://www.arthurmag.com/2009/06/27/rip-michael-jackson-1959-1984/comment-page-1/#comment-174843 pete Sat, 27 Jun 2009 18:54:35 +0000 http://www.arthurmag.com/?p=8064#comment-174843 yeah. i was surprised by this attitude when nixon and reagan died. two pretty widely hated guys suddenly became near-saints. i'm unsure if it's because people just want to see the good in things in retrospect, or nostalgia, or the taboo about talking badly about the dead still exists. whatever the reason though, it comes across as borderline offensive and just kinda stupid. yeah. i was surprised by this attitude when nixon and reagan died. two pretty widely hated guys suddenly became near-saints. i’m unsure if it’s because people just want to see the good in things in retrospect, or nostalgia, or the taboo about talking badly about the dead still exists. whatever the reason though, it comes across as borderline offensive and just kinda stupid.

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