the documentary film “Leaving Neverland Will accuse”, in which two young men, Michael Jackson of sexual abuse, the history of music change? You may, in view of the substantial allegations that are being raised, Jackson’s music still emitting or enjoy? Must be an artist to be morally sound, so that you may give the work the attention? These questions should clarify the “Club” of the Swiss television – and it is not difficult to guess that on such a question, no clear answer has been produced.
The lies first of all on the Film itself. Its creators have created a work that takes four hours of the two victims, you have missed it, but apparently, to research also in the extended environment. And so the first part of the discussion degenerates to the big trial and error, whether the documentation provides sufficient evidence to substantiate the allegation against Jackson. The most frequently heard phrase: “You don’t know it.”
Would a Boycott be inconsistent?
The psychologist Regula brother-in-law sees no reason to doubt the credibility of the victim, to the very same pattern of file Jackson the over a thousand cases, where you are the head of a counseling center as a Co-exploited children and young people annually meet. The Michael-Jackson-Fan Ueli Meier senses then, against the financial interests of the alleged Victims. Somewhere in between the evaluation of the state’s attorney’s, Martin Wyss, of the features of the amazing remark that the presumption of innocence is not an absolute Good: “If I were to innocence suspect, I would be biased as a Prosecutor”.
Now then. To clarify, you will not be the case. And the big Maybe, the dangles since the early nineties, about the integrity of Michael Jackson, irritated because the rest of the discussion. At some point, the round comes after all to the conclusion that a Boycott of Michael-Jackson-titles – as of various foreign radio stations, with a decision – a somewhat imprecise morality is. In this consequence, you would also need the Oeuvre of Elvis (he had years of a relationship with a Minor) or James Brown (he struck several times his wife’s hospital Mature), in addition, our museums and libraries would be occupied a little less lush. If a Boycott would be appropriate, then a maximum in the case of music, the criminal or questionable content transport.
Moral integrity of the artist
Try the discussion in society, to expand, to lead all of them in dead-end streets with deep potholes. The swirl around the case, Jackson fit the current Zeitgeist of the allegation culture and the political correctness that is claimed, and the moral standards are constantly changing. And again, the psychologist has to intervene with the note that it was child abuse not a moral Bagatelle, but simply a crime.
The most interesting throw-in eventually comes out by presenter Barbara Lüthi: It is expected that the art of dragging life, in Good and in Evil, in its sublimity as in its awfulness. However, the authors always moral blamelessness was expected. Why that was, nobody could answer. Maybe it’s because of the free pass the art to move in the deepest abysses of Being, and to reflect this, and presupposes a certain moral integrity of the artist.
No chasms in Jackson’s music
In the case of Michael Jackson however, in the entire musical is hardly evidence of a dark side. Also this is no unusual phenomenon, says psychologist. The perpetrators are usually the one that would have been regarded as particularly harmless.
Jackson has produced in his long career, maybe two really good albums. His tours in the nineties were by no means sold out forever, and in the zero years, Manu Chao, sold, for example, in Europe far more albums as the King of Pop. There is this strange, battered by life people a lot of Transfiguration, delusion, and an almost religious cult of celebrities. The Film and the “Club” suggests that at least this should put in the next time a little bit. The music, the life, is interwoven with the biographies of their Fans, says the cultural scientist Elisabeth Bronfen. On Saturday, Michael Jackson has been played 34 Times for the Swiss Radio. This does not indicate a lack of morality, but rather of a lack of inventiveness of the music editors.
The “Club” on the topic of “genius or Monster: What remains of Michael Jackson” is online to Play SRF to see. On Tuesday at 22.25 PM, the broadcast will be shown on SRF 1.
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Created: 07.04.2019, 11:48 PM
