[Faile]

As someone who often complains about the sinisterness of Walt Disney yet enjoyed a trip to Disneyland recently, it's hard for me to figure it out. Certainly Disney does scare me on a level; the sprawling egotistic agenda of it all, yet it's also comforting. And this was the vision of the man in a way; to export his work and his world to everyone, in a way that combines wholesomeness with profit margins. Fair play to him, it worked even if certain cartoons do scare me.

Perhaps Michael Jackson lived in a similar way, in that he put his world up against that of the real. By allowing himself to be judged by the world in such a way, he was always going to become property of it and that can't be healthy.

Certainly in his case, he came off worse. You can see my hard-line view in the post that Harry has linked to, but with time I think I've certainly lost that edge of accusation. I think whilst he may not have committed a crime (and the courts didn't think so), he certainly didn't act in a way that was morally and ethically correct. Still, I believe history will judge him kindly, in the blind way that history often does. I feel sorry for his children as they may well fall in to the same trap he did, whereby the media and fans and everyone who wants to make some money rules their world.

I can't say I was sad at his death. I think it was strange to see an icon pass away (and he was iconic, no question there). However, his world was never something I sought to aspire to. Sure, Billy Jean is a good song, but that's where it ends.

I'm not sure this had made much sense. I don't know, I'm perhaps sick of false gods having lived through the canonisation of Diana. We all live and die and there's so much more of worth in the world! Perhaps I'm just a cold person after all.