It’s been almost two years since Michael Jackson died…I am not going to talk about how I feel about what happened…but I know that I avoided all mentions of it and most of all watching the documentary “This Is It” like the plague. I did not want to watch it…I did not want to see his genius at work shortly before he died…I simply did not want to look at him and constantly think that “wow…he has no idea he is about to be ‘History’ .” Anyhow, I finally saw it tonight, and finally dealt with MY loss of Michael Jackson, as he meant something very different to each one of us.
He inspired all of us more than we know…kids that are born today in his absence will still grow up doing the Moonwalk…he will remain a legend and perhaps the only legend worthy of being called one. For me personally as a child, aside from obviously his music, he influenced me in the way I dress and not only because it looked cool but because of what I felt it represented. His Military gear.
Michael Jackson’s marching beats and military gear weren’t an ode to authority but an illustration of the importance of the so called authority to show up at 0800 “we need you to wake up” hours.
We can disguise soul dictatorship as democracy or we can actually have freedom and democracy of the people but we still assign authority to lead us and we will follow…we follow more than any authority will ever realize…we are followers…be it government or God…we are built to follow and to be lead…we dont want responsibility so we lay the blame on who is responsible…who we elect to be responsible…then we go on to establish an argument point based on that to seem righteous…we know between right and wrong, yet we let someone else be right or wrong on our behalf and only protest when they are wrong as if they were some God appointed Super Being. Those we appoint are only as human as we are.
We are all heading somewhere and we need a “Leader” to justify the itch in our souls to tell us that we are doing our part individually and fulfilling our duties, but we fail to realize that these trivial pursuits may relieve us of our itch temporarily but they will never cure our itch because we have only scratched the surface. Politics, religion and power sound like three different subjects but from the beginning of time have been so intertwined that we have created doctrines of denial to substantiate them.
Forgive people for the person they are…do not resent them because of the person you know you are. Its only fair to judge someone according to the limits of THEIR knowledge…not yours. We can have all the freedom in the world but we might as well be slaves if we just act like a herd of lambs…we allow them to lead, we decide who leads, we should know where we want to go once that is decided.
When Michael Jackson adorned that military gear, he was simply trying to tell us that authority doesn’t necessarily have to be such a debilitating, negative, overpowering FAILURE, that it can be: an unadulterated idea and that it can be the soul that delivers all of us to that epiphany that is tired of waiting to be realized. He did this through his music, his lyrics, through his dance and through his constant sacrifice of himself. I truly believe that he wasn’t just an entertainer, but a messenger of good…and I know we have had messengers before but none like him that every generation in the future will relate to even after he is long gone. Its not going to be about what is written of him or his accomplishments or his message, its not going to be about heaven or hell, its not going to be about repentance or punishment, its not going to be about unknown wraths of this world or the supposed world hereafter…it is going to be about us… it is going to be real and it is going to be about the here and the now and the person we are supposed to be.
When you lose your soul, you cease to exist…our souls ceased to exist when we lost the last real human being on this planet, Michael Jackson. So from now on, lets elect to be “elected” and not “run” as a race. The world as it exists is a figment of our experiences and actions individually….each one of us can wake up tomorrow and change it by simply recalculating our complaints in life and deciding to remember it by what we did for ourselves not what someone didn’t do for us. We ARE the authority, lets be responsible with our choices and lets demand humanity…once we demand humanity, there is no way any one of us is going to be left unsatisfied or disappointed. Lets be human again and not just citizens.
Zara Tareen
Jan 27th 2011
“All I wanna say is that they don’t really care about us”
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