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        <title>The Goondu Phenomenon, Intermarriages, &amp; the sad state of Romance in Singapore</title>
    
    
    
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                <div class="enclosure-asset-description">Those who protest and claim Singapore as a melting pot due to an increase in mixed marriages, need to witness that such interracial marital unions only occur in specific directions; for example, more Chinese women marry Caucasian men than Chinese men who marry Caucasian women. Even the expatriate communities here exist almost separately from the local communities despite the government’s best efforts to address this issue. Hence, the question that really needs to be asked and addressed today is this – As Singaporeans, do we really possess the heart and mind of a twenty first century individual? - Reena Devi.


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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Just
picture yourself dancing to this tune with someone as opposed to doing so with some
contemporary &#39;hip hop&#39; or ‘rave’ number.&#160; </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Which
do you think incites your attention and appreciation of the person you&#39;re
dancing with?&#160; I feel that much of contemporary &#39;club&#39; tunes contracts
one&#39;s appreciation of significance to include none other than oneself.&#160;
And the mindnumbing thud of the beat, which oftentimes goes much faster than
one&#39;s normal heartbeat does much to incite self-absorption as opposed to
rhythms that promote cognizance and appreciation of another.&#160; I miss those days that produced the kind of music that encouraged one to look at each other, talk to each, smile at each other, and which, in its totality brought about greater rhythm between oneself and the person or persons one was dancing with.&#160; I dare say that
rhythm, amongst others, does much in either contracting or expanding one’s
field of cognizance and appreciation.</span>&#160; Hence, in my books, a good social rhythm is that which leads to good vibrations that enables that which resonates from either to bring about greater mutual appreciation.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><br /></p>

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        <title>Saturday Nite beat - Beat Street, Roxy Battle</title>
    
    
    
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<p></p><p>Yeah...&#160; This is how it was with me and my &#39;crew&#39; back then.&#160; We kicked ass, and got our asses kicked.&#160; Loved the passion on both sides.&#160; Potent resource indeed.</p><p><br />ed</p><p><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div></p>
        
    
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        <title>Making sense of MJ</title>
    
    
    
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            <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><strong>I find m<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">uch
of what is being said in the British media about Michael Jackson to be,
generally, analytically superficial and shallow at best, and which
tends to feed the pervasive culture of ignorance, and celebrity-worship cum
self-diminution.&#160; I was expecting more from them given their
&#39;professional&#39; status, but I suppose having a queen would tend to
compromise their ability to appreciate the thorns founding the crown.&#160; <br /></span></strong></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">This article is a response to their celebrity-worshipping nonsense.</span></strong></p><p><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&#160;</span>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">“Michael
Jackson&#39;s art was astonishingly innovative. No one could dance like him, until
he showed them how, and then they were never as good as he was. His concept of
the dance was utterly 20th century, extravagantly multi-dimensional, and not in
the least middle class.” – Germaine Greer, </span><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jun/26/michael-jackson-death-in-la"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Guardian</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></p>

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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><strong style=""><span style="font-size: 20pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">“</span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">If ‘Genius’
is 10 percent talent and 90 percent hard work, we could say that the masses
ought to be credited for the latter in the production of the phenomenon of
Michael Jackson. - ed</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;">(one of the reasons why the concept of Intellectual Property strikes me as an Intellectual Impropriety)<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><br /> </span></p>

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have said quite a bit on MJ’s dance style in a previous article, and which is
excerpted here for its relevance.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: normal;"><strong style=""><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">“</span></strong><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">His
dance and music was of the genre of ‘juvenile self-assertion’.&#160; The quick
definite movements, the angularity of it, short spurts of multidirectional
movements, <em><span style="font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">and </span></em>complemented
by a style of singing with it&#39;s yells, &#39;hooos&#39;, sharp in/exhalation,
self-confident and semi-aggressive facial contortions, says as much and little
besides.&#160; You could say that, in this, the masses&#39; self-assertive
propensities were directed away from anti-establishmentism and intellectual
inclinations by way of self-assertion being presented without any intellectual
or confrontational qualities.&#160; And with him, amongst others, serving as
cultural icons, the juvenile masses didn&#39;t have much of a reason to seek beyond
them for something more.&#160; And whatever energy that was diffused amongst
the multitudes&#160;found articulation through the socio-economic system since
it didn&#39;t have an ideology or a direction to begin with - unlike in the
&#39;hippie&#39; 60s. &#160; You could say that MJ, amongst others, served as the
element within the spirit of the 80s that enabled the overthrow of any&#160;
semblance of anti-establishmentism that was inherited from the 60s and
70s.&#160;- </span><a href="http://edsperience.vox.com/library/post/why-mj-was-not-the-greatest-entertainer-of-his-age.html"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Why
MJ was not the ‘greatest entertainer of his age’</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">,
ed.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><strong style=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Just a bit more on this...</span></strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Now
you think, amongst other writers in various global newspapers, MJ’s dance style
was invented or afforded much innovation by him don’t you.<span style="">&#160; </span>Well, that’s not entirely true.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&#160;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Michael’s
dance style has, amongst others, three significant sources.<span style="">&#160; </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&#160;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The
first, and most obvious source, is from the street culture in California and
New York City in the 60s and early 70s which includes, amongst others, Breakdance
styles such as ‘popping’, ‘locking’, ‘wave’ and the more aggressive, ‘uprock’.<span style="">&#160; </span>Other assertive street styles were also
integrated or incorporated into what one of the pioneers of the Universal Zulu Nation, Africa
Bambaataa, termed, ‘hip hop’.&#160; And the famed ‘moonwalk’ itself can be traced back
to James Brown and Bill Bailey, the latter of whom, by the
way, was one of the first <em style="">documented</em>
artistes to do the ‘moonwalk’ in <strong style="">1955</strong>.<span style="">&#160;&#160; </span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;">
    
    
    





        





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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The
main reason why MJ became famous for ‘his’ dance was that fame was already
coming his way with his stint in the Jackson 5 and his later solo career.<span style="">&#160; </span>This served as the stage wherein he could
expose &#39;his&#39; other talents such as dancing.<span style="">&#160;
</span>You could say that MJ used his relatively prominent position to be one
of the first to <em style="">bring in</em> street
dance, as opposed to <em style="">inventing</em> it.<span style="">&#160; </span>Hence, as he was already becoming popular,
the global mass of fans were at the ready to credit him with everything that was of
non-MJ origins or state that he was, amongst others, ‘astonishingly innovative’
where <em style="">appropriative</em> might be more apt
– just like ideas not being appreciated unless it issues forth from a renown
figure even though it has existed for quite some time or in more insightful
form amongst unknowns.<span style="">&#160; </span>He was prominent,
so all he had to be was ‘good’ at, for instance, dance, for it to be construed
as ‘great’.<span style="">&#160; </span>The <em>prominence </em>of the
artiste, hence, served as the Midas touch as opposed to Michael simply ‘being
the best’.</span>&#160; But,on the downside, once a celebrity appropriates the culture of the masses of unknowns and exhibits what s/he has a preference for, it has the effect of reducing the masses to mere reproducers and innovators.&#160; In this, the &#39;celebrity&#39; does much in regimenting the vibrancy upon which s/he emerges.<br /></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The
2<sup>nd</sup> source of MJ’s dance style was founded on the increasing burst
of juvenile predominance in culture, and with pop culture being weeded off its
ideological content as it was in the mid-60s up to the mid-70s.<span style="">&#160; </span>Self-assertion without ideology or what I
would term, intellectual individualism and depth, would then be well prepared
to descend and manifest itself in more abstract forms such as breakdancing
amongst other ‘hip hop’ styles that can be crudely perceived as ‘self-assertion
and vibrancy without a brain’.<span style="">&#160; </span>I’m not
saying that these cultures are problematic.<span style="">&#160;
</span>But, when subconscious vibrancy is not articulated through the mind, its
next refuge would naturally be through dance, amongst others.<span style="">&#160; </span>It is then that it becomes a problem as it
serves as a ‘compensatory mechanism’ that is activated to allay the discomfort
ensuing from the human persona not being able to express itself in more deeper
forms.<span style="">&#160; </span>One could say that when popular
intellectual individualism or/and depth is at a relatively higher level, dance
forms usually take on deeper forms.<span style="">&#160; </span>In
that, such dance forms complement intellectual individualism and depth as
opposed to serving as compensation for not having it.<span style="">&#160; </span>Hence, with the decline of intellectual
individualism and depth, or the masses perceiving it as beyond their sphere of rightful
interest through socialization in the ‘modern’ understanding of ‘youth’, or as
economic units, the stage will be set for the emergence of the likes of Michael
Jackson as a ‘star’ and the ‘fans’ necessary to serve as its stage and
spotlight.<span style="">&#160; </span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">(I
don’t actually feel entirely comfortable with this statement as I too was a
‘breakdancer’ back in the 80s with my own ‘crew’.<span style="">&#160; </span>It really made me feel alive as it still does
now.<span style="">&#160; </span>But I do know that if I had not
been underdeveloped by my social and class experience and location, I may have
engaged in activities of greater intellectual individualistic depth.<span style="">&#160; </span>But if intellectual individualism and depth
could be achieved, that does not mean that this dance form would melt
away.<span style="">&#160; </span>Rather, this dance form could then
serve as primitive fuel for greater ventures.<span style="">&#160;
</span>But where intellectual individualism and depth is not achieved or
derisively perceived as the ‘obsession’ of ‘psychobabblers’ or ‘know-it-all
academics’, such a culture would serve as ‘compensation and distraction’ and
work toward depoliticising the citizenry.) </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The
3<sup>rd</sup> reason for Michael’s evolving dance style is the adoration paid
him by the global congregation of ‘fans’.<span style="">&#160;
</span>Michael’s self-doubt will be decreased along with an increase in his
sense of self-efficacy.<span style="">&#160; </span>And with the
sense of self-importance amplified within him by swooning ‘fans’, the
self-assertive qualities of the dance style of the streets would become more
pronounced by his own increasing sense of self-worth.<span style="">&#160; </span>That is why we can see that MJ’s dance style
became increasingly self-assertive from the 70s through to the present.<span style="">&#160; </span>From the dance complementing the <strong style="">song</strong> in the 70s, it mutated into the
song and dance complementing <strong style="">him</strong>,
the ‘King of Pop’.<span style="">&#160; </span>The posturing became
nothing less than megalomaniacal in proportions along with the titling of his
albums that moved ‘off the wall’ to ‘bad’ and to a grossly narcissistic,
‘History’.<span style="">&#160; </span>He began to cease to ‘second
guess’ or doubt himself and just developed this megalomaniacal dance style to
the extreme as seen by the increasingly self-assertive posturing that became
the dance.<span style="">&#160; </span>And the masses, already
living vicariously off his transfigured grandeur, whilst they lived as mere
‘fans’ and cogs and wheels within a socio-economic system over which they had
no control, fell hook, line, sinker, and titanic for the increasingly potent
opiate that was MJ, and which served well, and correlated with, their
increasing diminution as truly individualistic and cogitating modern
citizens.<span style="">&#160; </span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">‘Youth’
was given a new identity.<span style="">&#160; </span>You weren’t
here to make a change.<span style="">&#160; </span>You were just
here to make a megalomaniacal stand – and the system stepped in to appropriate
this valuable mindless resource.&#160; That is when what was &#39;cool&#39; moved from <em>creating </em>your own style to <em>following </em>it.<span style="">&#160; </span>MJ,
amongst a host of other factors, along with the socio-economic system, paved
the way for the mutation of the masses to the grossly self-absorbed, ignorant, incorporated and arrogant people that they are today.<span style="">&#160;
</span>He distracted the attention of the global mass of youth from the foundations of civilisation
and ushered them into the superstructure. <span style="">&#160;</span>One could quite plausibly state that MJ was
the final and decisive push against the intellectually individualistic ‘hippie’
definition of youth.<span style="">&#160; </span>These ‘stars’
finally became the Gods of the masses, keeping them supple and compliant for
the use of the elite.<span style="">&#160; </span>And thereafter,
even saw some of these &#39;stars&#39; taking on roles within the UN, amongst other
organisations, and forwarding initiatives for the resolution of problems they,
in no insignificant way, helped in creating and perpetuating.<span style="">&#160; </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">The
popular stage shared between singers and philosophers in the ‘hippie’ era, and
was itself one of the reasons why it was undermined, was predictably evicted of
the latter in the 80s as self-gratification was more immediate when singers
were turned into deities as opposed to the relatively lengthy and
less-‘entertaining’ observations of philosophers.<span style="">&#160; </span>Hence, as one of the most significant
deathblows, MJ, amongst others, and all that he stood for, delivered to the
establishment youthful vibrancy without a mind.<span style="">&#160;
</span>And insofar as they became fodder, thus they now render fodder of all.</span></p>

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relative prominence of any celebrity indicates the relative predominance of a singular
facet of an otherwise multifarious human persona. <span style="">&#160;</span>The question is, what is being brought to the
fore at the expense of what is thus relegated its diminished position in the
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">“For all
Michael Jackson&#39;s flaws he was the greatest entertainer of his age</span></strong></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Michael Jackson was the greatest entertainer of the <em style="">Juvenile</em> Age.<span style="">&#160; </span>That is, he
appealed to the juvenile amongst and within us in his juvenile vibrancy,
self-assertion, arrogance, self-absorption, animation, youthfulness – not all
bad, but not all good either.<span style="">&#160; </span>But the
bad and good of it all is determined by the degree we might be inclined to view
him as ‘the greatest entertainer of his age.’<span style="">&#160;
</span>I’m sure Mickey Mouse might be the greatest entertainer of those of a <em style="">particular</em> perspectival age, but who
might be confused for ‘the greatest entertainer of his age’ amongst toddlers
just as do those who think likewise of Mike.<span style="">&#160;
</span>In a sense, this nonsense is just another man-infestation of western
cultural hegemony.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">But entertainment is not a singular phenomenon in itself.<span style="">&#160; </span>That which we are entertained by is
diagnostic of what we are.<span style="">&#160; </span>For myself, the
youthful, fun-loving and self-assertive aspect of my persona is ‘entertained’
and reinforced by, amongst others, MJ, but when it comes to the intellectual,
inquisitive, spiritual, aesthetic aspects of the potentials of personality, a
personality I did not allow MJ to completely define (though I’m more<span style="">&#160; </span>of a Prince person myself), I look elsewhere.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">In relation to this, the singularly developed might think that MJ was a
great dancer.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">His dance and music was of the genre of ‘juvenile self-assertion’.<span style="">&#160; </span>The quick definite movements, the angularity
of it, short spurts of multidirectional movements, <em>and
</em>complemented by a style of singing with it&#39;s yells, &#39;hooos&#39;, sharp in/exhalation, self-confident and semi-aggressive facial contortions, says
as much and little besides.&#160; You could say that, in this, the masses&#39; self-assertive propensities were directed away from anti-establishmentism and intellectual inclinations by way of self-assertion being presented without any intellectual or confrontational qualities.&#160; And with him, amongst others, serving as cultural icons, the juvenile masses didn&#39;t have much of a reason to seek beyond them for something more.&#160; And whatever energy that was diffused amongst the multitudes&#160; found articulation through the socio-economic system since it didn&#39;t have an ideology or a direction to begin with - unlike in the &#39;hippie&#39; 60s. &#160; You could say that MJ, amongst others, served as the element within the spirit of the 80s that enabled the overthrow of any&#160; semblance of anti-establishmentism that was inherited from the 60s and 70s.&#160; <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">That was, in essence, what Michael Jackson stood for - but it&#39;s going to take more than the ubiquitous &#39;fan&#39; to realise that.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"><span style=""></span><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">Dance is a
many-splendored thing.<span style="">&#160; </span>We have the
gracefulness of ballet, the philosophical depth of <em style="">Bharatanatyam</em>, the earthy tones of the Aboriginal dance form, the
confrontational spirit of the Maori and certain Zulu dance forms, the
supernatural qualities of the Indonesia ‘horse dances’, etc.<span style="">&#160; </span>To allow one wo/man to monopolise the idea of
‘the greatest dancer’ or ‘the greatest entertainer’, hence, is, another form of
cultural fascism that narrows the appreciation of oneself in more ways than
that which is afforded a spotlight led by an increasingly juvenile and
ill-educated mass.<span style="">&#160; </span>In this light, I would
recognise MJ as the abstract epitome of the arrogant, self-absorbed juvenile
individualism that was brought about by a myriad of factors, that MJ fed and
fed on, and which has become the hallmark of these times.&#160; In this sense, I suppose one could say that MJ was the &#39;greatest entertainer of his age&#39;, amongst those sharing his mental age and having it define a significant portion of their persona that is - and I have to admit, I was one of them in my rebellious teen years in the 80s.</span>&#160; But instead of allowing MJ, amongst a host of others to incorporate my rebellious streak and just have it articulated through pop culture, I used the rebellious spirit which they aided in enhancing, to overthrow their hegemony over the <em>entirety </em>of my personality.<br /></p>

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to earn millions for it as it, compared to humanitarians, thinkers, and
activists, does far less for the all-round progress of humanity.</span>&#160; For all you weeping, mourning &#39;fans&#39; out there, go get a multifaceted life.&#160; If not, that aspect of your personality which is brought to the fore by the preeminence granted these &#39;stars&#39; will see you forking out millions for a vicarious existence, along with ensuring that those who come after you will know no better for the miscast spotlight you helped in directing.<br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">&#160;</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; font-family: &quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;">But, I still appreciate the ‘self-assertive’ and youthful essence
contained within MJ’s songs – which is a resource that bears fruit when applied
in higher planes of life – especially in the 70s which was more youthfulness-cum-vibrancy
as opposed to the brash-cum-self-absorption numbers he churned out in the decades
thereafter.</span>&#160; The following, is my all-time favourite number by MJ.&#160; Thanks for the primitive fuel Michael, and...&#160; <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; line-height: 150%;">...Keep well in the next life.<br /></p>

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suppose the spirit of the 60s-70s was as much a Black movement comprising
whites as it was the inverse.&#160; We could say that the long-haired &#39;hippies&#39;
grew their hair long because they couldn&#39;t keep Afros;)&#160; But when the
&#39;errant&#39; &#39;hippies&#39; amongst the american populace were &#39;straightened out&#39; and the
era came to an end, so were the Afros. </span></p>

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            <p><a href="http://healthypanda.vox.com">Jen</a> mentioned that she attended a concert where ‘Gotta Get Away’ was performed. Since she was born in a different decade to me, I am pretty sure she does not mean this:
    
    
    





        






    
    
    





        





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