So many of my friends have jumped on the "Leaving Neverland" bandwagon. They think MJ was a child molester.
I can't say for certain that he wasn't. I wasn't there.
On the other hand, I've seen so many bizarre lies made up about him, like that his children were fathered by his dermatologist or a white actor -- and that they're white, when: they're clearly light-skinned African Americans, Prince has inherited MJ's vitiligo, and Paris looks like MJ's twin.
Moreover, in my own family, I've seen that my ex had false memories of abuse, possibly implanted by a therapist, which seems to me likely to have happened to these two guys, if they weren't outright lying. I've seen transcripts of psychologists suggesting to former child friends of MJ that merely sleeping in his bed was sexual molestation.
In fact, he grew up, until he was 10 in a 2 bedroom home with 8 siblings and two parents. He had 26 cousins nearby. He would have had a very different concept of sharing sleeping quarters than most Americans. He saw nothing wrong with what he was doing and couldn't understand what everyone else thought was wrong with it.
I do suspect that he had an autism spectrum disorder. He didn't understand what kind of impression he was creating.
But I've based this whole Quixotic Quest on MJ's idea that singing together could bring or at least promote world peace. With so many people believing that MJ was a child molester, it's hard to continue this #QuixoticQuest without completely re-writing all my blogs about it.
I really thought that this was a divinely inspired calling, but I'm not sure where to go with it.
Of course, over time, my feeling about how this quest should work has evolved. I used to think it had to be a single song, sung all at the same time. Now I'm thinking that the way YouTube works, with so many people exchanging music, might be a better model. I also think that, perhaps, just having common cultural observances of any kind could be useful to help us feel like one people.
But, ultimately, the idea that this quest was inspired by MJ isn't going to be an easy sell right about now.
My recent YouTube video about this topic.
My main #QuixoticQuest blog
https://skysong263.blogspot.com/2015/05/trying-to-organize-information-about-my.html
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