I agree with your first sentence. I can’t say I agree with your second sentence. We have a system that rewards, protects, and exploits artists who are fucked in the head. That kind of ecosystem is going to select for a higher proportion of very messed up people, but by no means do I believe most artists are fucked in…

Yeah, it freaked me out even then.

At the time I was newly introduced to Triumph of the Will and the similarity was unmistakable. I always had a creepy feeling regarding the military styling combined with the overwrought, screaming and fainting “fans”. I have a memory that Jackson and his label had a bunch of those statues made and were doing their…

Because in his eyes he wasn’t doing anything wrong.

I’m struck my his insistence that he would never harm a child.  I do think he believes he never harmed these boys.  That they loved him, and physically responded to him.  Therefore, it wasn’t wrong.  It was only the small minded who couldn’t see that these were loving relationships.  I do think he believed that.  Its…

...and Mitch McConnell is a turtle.