Was Michael Jackson really a more significant musician than Scott Joplin or Louis Armstrong?
In all the hype over MJ’s death, isn’t publicity prevailing over real history – and judgment? Seems to me that for most people history only begins in their own adolescence. The cult of celebrity above reality?
One man’s judgment is another man’s publicity. The wheels of time grind for centuries before significant people and events are sorted out. Even then many of the significant are lost only to be “discovered” anew.
What proves to be significant for each of us is trapped in our personal dance. Michael Jackson died. Let the dead bury their dead. The kid sure could dance.
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