Michael Jackson as the epitome of Western Civilisation

[andrewducker]

This western libertarianism often ends up protecting madness. Nowhere is this clearer than in Jackson's love of pyjama parties and 12-year-old boys in his bed. No one feels competent to intervene because they can't tell the difference between a harmless lunatic protected by individual rights or freedoms and individual rights used to protect a harmful lunatic from scrutiny. Perhaps the smokescreen of eccentricities, talent, money and civil rights, created by Jackson, means even the protagonists don't know what's going on. Most worrying, as we advance towards a war to protect western values, is that Jacko may not be an aberration but their logical outcome.

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[heron61.livejournal.com]

As would I.

To be honest, I'm far more worried about enforced social conformity and the existence of laws and official surveillance to investigate the likes of Michael Jackson than I am about what's he's doing.

Then again, I also believe age of consent laws need major revision and find the idea of increasing eccentricity, breakdown of cultural norms and the splintering of the West into a host of tiny almost mutually incomprehensible sub-cultures to be rather appealing.