Potentia Deo ad Destructionem

Aside from the overt idolatry by the media and our society, not much interested me about the death of Michael Jackson. I was not impressed by his music, I wasn’t impressed by his record sales.  Of course this is just me.  I mean, I could care less for much of what is called entertainment today. Michael Jackson fed the entertainment hungry society.

Now, I’m only a twenty something, but I’m disillusioned by our endless cravings for entertainment. I can’t stand MTV, I don’t like VH1, and I’m not the biggest fan of pop culture in general. I can’t stand people who have to be constantly spoon fed entertainment as if that is what life is about. I can’t stand this lack of self control that our generation has when it comes to needing entertainment. You can find it on your cell, get it on your laptop, watch it on your TV. We need more! Give me more! Like a  crippling crack addiction we cannot get enough, we need some more. We run back to our vendor for a fix. Gimme, gimme, gimme!

This tendency seems to plague us in all of life, for example in the workplace, supervisors will go to deep ends to make work ‘fun’ for employees, after all we must feed our incessant cravings for ‘fun’ right? Even at work. If we’re not having fun, then we’re not going to get anything done. This attitude is stupid. It suffers from a realization that not all things are fun. Its just a fact of life. There are times to have fun,  but its not always fun time.

At his funeral Michael Jackson was canonized as a saint by the rhetoric filled racist Rev. Al Sharpton (I’m sorry, did I just reverse the rhetoric?).  Apparently, he did many good things. Now of course, we know that Michael changed his physical features and was plagued by constant accusations of child abuse. Lets ignore that for now. He did get us all to sing kumbaya and could grab his crotch while twitching his legs, oh and lets not forget the moonwalk! Someone even went as far as to say that he was like Jesus! After all Jesus united everyone didn’t he? I guess that person didn’t read about how Jesus divided the pharisees? Or when he spoke about dividing the wheat and the chaff?

You see this wouldn’t have happened had Americans understood that leisure is not the chief end of man, but of course sinful depraved humanity doesn’t understand this. What we do is exalt things instead of God. This funeral, this irrational, erratic preoccupation with the death of Michael is only because we are an entertainment hungry society. We can’t get enough. We’re hooked. Michael was an entertainer, he fed us he gave us our daily bread. So, when we lose him we mourn. We lost what? A dancer, and a singer? Does he deserve high honors and praise?

Who cares about the death of a pop-star when there is a revolution in Iran? Who cares to read “OMG News” on yahoo, when a tsunami was just reported? Who cares!? We do! Say the Americans. We love entertainment, and don’t you dare take away our idol! Oh, and don’t bring this up to any typical American, if you do remember you’re the ‘nerd’.

In the end, the death of Michael Jackson and its aftermath is a symptom of our social decay. Its a sign of American priorities. Obamunism is coming, but Michael died. Revolution in Iran, but Michael died. A meteor is going to annihilate the earth, but Michael died! Jesus Christ returned…but Michael died!