We are evolved mammals. I don’t know if you’ve heard this yet, but it’s true.
We are social animals. We have evolved the capacity to “model” another’s behaviour, in our brians, of other’s social behavior. We have *extremely* adapted conceptual models for facial recognition. We *know* who certain people are. We have a limit for this ability.
It’s at about 150.
There are 7,000,000,000 or so of us.
Most of us, and this is the weird part, used one of those 150 conceptual being slots for a thing called Michael Jackson. That man is now dead.
Watching us cast that conception into stone and history, has been very interesting to watch.
It would seem, in the case of Mr. Jackson, that his vast talent to entertain the planet has faaar overshadowed the demons he battled within himself while doing so. If there were an XBox Achievement for his efforts, it would be something along the lines of “Iconic Status Achieved.”
And so he went, and stays with us now forever, not as a person, but as a symbol for a person. An icon of song and dance and popularity.
Peace be with you finally, man I saw sing and dance on stage once live, and thousands of times in digital form.
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