I have been struggling to clarrify my thoughts on Michael Jackson’s death. It looks like Andrew Sullivan, in his blog for The Nation, did for me when he wrote that, while he grieved for Jackson, “… I also grieve for the culture that created and destroyed him.”
Sullivan wrote: “That culture is ours, and it is a lethal and brutal one: With fame and celebrity as its core values, with money as its sole motive, it chewed this child up and spat him out. I hope he has the peace now he never had in his life. And I pray that such genius will not be so abused again.”
Via the CNN article, Michael Jackson and the ‘extreme’ price of fame.
