Michael’s childhood may very well have shaped who he was as a man, but let’s face it; when we become adults, society holds us accountable by who we are and what we do, not by what your mother and father did. There are lots of people locked up in prison for commiting crimes because they had fucked up childhoods. I’m not comparing Michael to that, but he’s an adult, and I think we should judge him as such.

And did he really need professional help? I don’t know what his mental state was, but it seemed that he was surrounded by at least a hundred people, and these are the people he knew or employed. Of all those people, wasn’t there someone he could have confided in if he had a problem? Diana Ross? Liz Taylor? Brooke Shields? His Mother? I don’t think that you or I know half that many people, but we have a support system, someone we can talk to about anything, and they don’t charge us $500 an hour.

I agree he was pushed into fame by his father. And if he had a choice, he would have been doing something different, that he wanted to do. And we may have never heard of him. But I also think life has it’s own plans, and life chose Michael to be a superstar.

And yes people all over the world have fucked up childhoods, but the very fact that Michael lived in his bubble as a “multi-platinum artist” shaped his own situation. When people “dream” of living like he did, they may think money and fame = happiness, security and love. But we really know it doesn’t.

So he had the money for professional help, it doesn’t mean he was able to attain it, or was in the frame of mind to seek it, and there’s the fact that the doctors themselves are generally just quacks prescribing Prozac.

Michael was the youngest of all the Jackson children and he was obviously pushed as the star. Look at them, they all do have their issues, and they all come across as odd to me. If you take AIC’s comment, they are looking to milk his death anyway.

F’ing JACKALS!

From RollingStone.com:

A reality special starring the Jackson family — but not Michael — that was filmed before the King of Pop’s death might air on A&E, MTV reports. The one-hour special was filmed as brothers Tito, Marlon, Jermaine and Randy Jackson were attempting to plan a new record and reunion tour. While production wrapped on the one-off episode, A&E might expand the episode into an entire series if the Jacksons sign off on it. “The plan was always for this to be a special with the possibility that it could turn into a series,” A&E vice president of publicity Dan Silberman told MTV. “We’ve begun speaking to the family, but there is no conclusion yet as to what will happen.”

As Rock Daily previously reported, the Jackson brothers were trying to recruit both Michael and Janet to appear in some capacity for a Jackson reunion show, with Jermaine going as far as saying a Jackson 5 reunion was on. Michael quickly shot down the rumors, saying in a statement, “My brothers and sisters have my full love and support, and we’ve certainly shared many great experiences, but at this time I have no plans to record or tour with them. I am now in the studio developing new and exciting projects that I look forward to sharing with my fans in concert soon.”

When Michael and AEG Live announced their This Is It! concerts in London, the organizer of the planned Jackson reunion promptly sued Michael, saying the AEG deal broke contract for a planned one-off concert at Dallas’ new Cowboys Stadium in 2010, which the airing of The Jackson Family special was supposed to coincide with.

Sisters Janet, Rebbie and La Toya Jackson also had no involvement with the reality special, but that will likely change as the focus of the show — if it were to get the go-ahead for a full season — would shift focus on the death of Michael Jackson and not the planned Jackson album and tour. “Ideally, it would deal with the Jackson death, but we can’t say with certainty [if it will],” Silberman told MTV. Thus far, no footage for the show has been filmed since Jackson’s death from sudden cardiac arrest on June 25th.

And what’s all this about his childhood? People all over the world have messed-up childhoods, but they don’t get to grow up to be multi-platinum artist. I wouldn’t want what happened to Michael to happen to anyone else, but he got to live a life that other people could only dream about.

As far as mental issues go, he made enough money over the years to get the best professional help money could buy. He had money for all those surguries, right? Most of us can’t even afford basic health care. And what about the other Jackson children? Do they have simular issues? Does anyone even care? You’ve never seen Janet doing stuff like this (and that act at the super bowl doesn’t count).

Bottom line; he was the king of pop. That is the way I will remember him. He’s not God, or the Pope, or the second coming of Jesus. He will be missed.