Michael Jackson dead

Michael Jackson is dead. And as is often the case, the response says infinitely more about the people who are responding than it does about Michael Jackson. Many pop culture events mark the timeline of our lives. Especially pop music. It is a curious phenomenon to me that many people have a clearly delineated period in which they actively listened to music. And they are forever trapped in that time period. Thus, baby boomers worship 60's and 70's music. Michael Jackson the entertainer is a pop cultural signpost for Gen X. But Michael Jackson the person is undefined, except for those who imagined him in a preferred image. For the rest of us? Was he dysfunctional? What sort of person builds statues of themselves? Was he a child molester? A sad, pathetic case of arrested development? Or just a very talented pop singer?