it was probably naive indifference that moved me to brush aside the anomalies of his youth or the unique damages inherent with child stardom to focus instead on the tumultuousness of the personality they fashioned. but when examining an individual so burdened with dysfunction as michael jackson, what matters to me today is to consider the enormity of his triumphs in the context of his deficiencies. in doing so i hope to gain at least a semblance of empathy for what will surely be a misunderstood emblem of my generation. to misapply his idiosyncrasies would be errant, and to discard his accomplishments would be in vain, and perhaps for now that's all that matters.
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