Michael Jackson, the well known and recently very dead eccentric pop-star who allegedly had himself poisoned by his house doctor, is back in the news. This won’t be the last time, because celebrities like him attract attention, even after their death. And moreover, this Michael Jackson was such a sick weirdo, that I expect his legacy to haunt the press for a considerable while still to come.
But today, he even outstretches my most daring expectations. The British media report that M.J. stated in an interview with rabbi Shmuley Boteach that Adolf Hitler must have been a genius. He was an evil genius, even M.J. admits, but Hitler was nevertheless commendable for being such a Super-Performer, who could rivet large crowds with his ideas and even make them do things like “becoming evil and zealously hating other people”.
According to Jackson, he himself would have been capable of turning Hitler around if he could have had one hour alone with him. Despite Hitler’s appalling malevolence and his horribly catastrophic results in our modern history, Jackson believed that Adolf was not “entirely bad”… because no one is. He just needed therapy.
Sure enough, I can imagine Adolf and Michael sharing a precious hour together. Michael, pants down, desperately trying to convince a-sexual virgin Adolf to have a go at the King Of Pop’s Lolly-Pop. Adolf, ranting and raving at Michael about the bad influence he has on the youth of today, whilst pulling his hair out, is not noticing Michaels Poker at all. However, for both, and for some topics, admiration could have been mutual:
A.H.: “Nice skin-tone, by the way, Michael. How DID you do that, verdammt noch mal? Turning from a black man into a white one, must have been harder for you than it was for me to turn the Jews from a people into a race.”
M.J.: “Ahwe, please Dolphe, Beat it! Beat it HARD!“
Indeed it must have been hard, but mainly for Dolphe. Michaels colour-change was almost overnight and due to a nasty disease. Hitler’s scheme however, was very elaborate and it took more time than Michaels skin, as well as the best part of a giant propaganda machine, to get accomplished. In order to justify the prosecution of the Jews, the Nazi’s had to “explain” the danger these supposedly “inferior” people posed to the supposedly “superior” Aryans. Their ability to “spoil the purity of the Aryan race by breeding” proved to be very useful for that. Genau! And for that, Jews had to be a race as well, just like the Aryans. Otherwise, there can be no racial interbreeding. Thus, racial anti-Semitism – as opposed to religious anti-Semitism which had been around in Europe since the early Christians – was born. Sort of.
To make a long story short: a lot of clever people may have made up a lot of racial theories in the early years of the 20th century; as “races”, both Jews and Aryans are fictive and non-existent.
I am digressing. I was writing about Michael Jackson’s handsome remarks in the press. He was a real sucker for fairy-tales. He was a Jehovah’s Witness, after all. If one can believe in a fictional figure like Jehova as if it were an impotent and evil god (errr, I mean an omnipotent and great god of course), one can also believe in curing Hitler of his evil with some therapy. The question remains: Why did Jackson concern himself with these complicated subjects at all? To draw even more attention to himself than he already did by his alleged child abuse?
Maybe mister Michael Megalomaniac Jackson was looking for the one person he could compare himself to. Admittedly, they both saw their empires decline, be it somewhat different in scale; the one was Neverland, the other the “Third Reich”. They also both had their private physicians who might have had very peculiar ideas as to the benefits of their clients. Although the jury is still out on Michaels doctor, the verdict on Theodor Morell, Hitler’s doctor, was cast decades ago: he was an authentic charlatan of Raspoetinuous proportions.
Strange people, these artists are. The one fails at his ambition to become a painter and turns into a dictator who proves to be lethal for over 20 million people. The other fails at his ambition to become a dictator – as an on stage genius orator – and becomes an artist who turns out to be lethal too, be it only for himself.
That’s deep. Very deep…..
