Commentary on Michael Jackson

This is from Bill Perry, a brilliant world-view analyst:

As the accolades pile up about the "impact" Michael Jackson had on the
world and the "legacy" he left behind, let's keep him in perspective.
First, let's give him credit for being a creatively unorthodox
entertainer, a good singer, an exceptional dancer (he created the "moon
walk") and a personal empire builder. That said, he had major issues in
his life that played out for all to see. So, second, let's not forget
his gender bending, glove wearing, face remaking (distorting), child
dangling, men infantilizing (sorry, got this from an article I read),
spree shopping, crotch grabbing, minors sleeping (with), debt incurring
and drug taking. MJ made Elvis' dark side look like a Sunday school
picnic by comparison. Most wives on the planet would leave their
husbands if they behaved like MJ. But that is how "entertainment" goes.
It breaks the rules, trashes what's good, and chips away at society.

Consider the following statements:

“Worldliness is what any particular culture does to make sin look normal
and righteousness look strange.”

-- David Wells, American missionary

“A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the
fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the
bestial.”

-- George Gilder, Senior Fellow, Discovery Institute, scholar and author

“The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.”

-- Christian Nestell Bovee (1820-1904), American attorney and writer

Perhaps this commentary can best be summed up by Oscar Wilde:

“The gods had given me almost everything but I let myself be lured into
long spells of senseless and sensual ease . . . tired of being on the
heights, I deliberately went to the depths in search of new sensations.
What the paradox was to me in the sphere of thought, perversity became
to me in the sphere of passion. I grew careless of the lives of others.
I took pleasure where it pleased me and passed on. I forgot that every
little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and
therefore what one has done in the secret chamber, one has some day to
cry aloud from the rooftop. I ceased to be lord over myself. I was no
longer the captain of my soul, and did not know it. I allowed pleasure
to dominate me. I ended in horrible disgrace.”

-- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), secular Irish poet, dramatist and critic