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TreSwank -> Jacko, Merrick, and Transmigration (9/11/2006 12:41:11 PM)
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The media-engineered, karmic pain-train has been awfully rough with America's favorite metaphorical bukkake target (Michael Jackson). Hell...........I might even be the last Jackson apologist left standing in the States, other than die-hard Michael fans and his extended family. If Jackson's imfamous legal fiascos didn't succeed in alienating potential sympathizers, his perceived weirdness, peurility, and tenuous grasp of reality probably did the trick, FO' SHEEZY.
Now, the Swanksta has NEVER been one to arbitrarily shove the concept of spiritual transmigration down the public's throat (not that it has retained any sort of gag reflex, anyway), but the parallels between the lives of Michael Jackson, and everyone's favorite historical sideshow celeb with a pachyderm sobriquet, "Elephant Man" Joseph Merrick, are so goddamn compelling, it's gotta make you stop and wonder. Even Michael himself, when discussing his own interest in the life of this unfortunate, physically deformed pariah, was taken aback by their shared characteristics.
" I love the story of the Elephant Man, he reminds me of myself alot, and I could relate to it, it made me cry because I saw myself in the story"
The pathos of this whole situation, really pins me to the mat. Here they are -two individuals shunned by the masses: one because of a hereditary biological defect, the other, an androgynous, pelvic-gyrating media freakshow ...................... and yet they reach out to each other across the span of a century, and develop an emotional rapport. If this isn't a case of reincarnation, there ain't no such thing to being with, ladies and gentlefolk. Even the transposed initials of their names seem like a big, cruel cosmic joke, rendered by some malevolent force.
I won't take up too much room to point about the similarites between Jackson and Merrick, but if you do your own research, you might just come to the same conclusion. Michael Jackson may have brought about his own downfall........but it seems to me that Jacko was born under a bad sign.
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