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      <![CDATA[Now you all judge him guilty, and trow stones.<br>
In a mean while read this its all over the internet.<br>
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<a href="http://www.makli.com/jordan-chandler-admits-he-lied-about-michael-jackson/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://www.makli.com/jordan-chandler-admit&hellip;</a><br>
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      <![CDATA[Interesting comment, Lori L. You've stated EXACTLY how Michael Jackson saw himself. He identified so strongly with Peter Pan that he tried to reinvent himself in that image--"longing to embrace the innocence of childhood" while denying its "hidden carnality."
    As for Barrie, though his behavior certainly didn't take place "in a vacuum," it was odd enough even by Victorian/Edwardian standards to stir speculation in his day.
    While social contexts change--there's certainly a huge difference between Barrie's repressed era and our permissive age--the need for a parent's affection is a constant in human nature. Barrie and Jackson were both children of emotionally withholding parents.
        
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      <![CDATA[Thank you, Gary, for putting it so well.  This sad narrative seems to fit the late Mr. Jackson better than anything else I have read. And if Barrie was any of those things, it wasn't in a vacuum--a whole encyclopedia could be written about the strange case of Victorian sexuality, hypersexuality, asexualty, etc.  Every fifth public house was a brothel in a place where Gilbert and Sullivan had to withdraw the name "Ruddygore" because it would offend the gentle sex.  What about other asexual heros?  Sherlock Holmes, Dr. Dolittle, and several others may be found.  So maybe Michael was a reborn Victorian gentleman of sorts, longing to embrace the innocence of childhood, not its hidden carnality.
        
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      <![CDATA[Or was that William Golding's description? Thanks for the opportunity to correct myself above: The reputed coiner of those syndromes was Dan Kiley. Coiner or not, McLuhan wrote about this Pan business--tho maybe he called it something a bit different like the PP Complex--well before Kiley. Ah, the Sixties! We anticipated everything back then.
        
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      <![CDATA[In response to Houston's comment, let's recall James M. Barrie's profoundly ambivalent description of Peter Pan and all children as "gay and innocent and heartless."
        
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      <![CDATA[A psychologist named Haley coined the Peter Pan Syndrome and for that matter the Wendy Syndrome. But in the more generous worldviews of sociology--if Marshall McLuhan counts as a sociologist--and of '60s advocacy we learn that the boomers were thought to aspire to Pan-dom (pandemonium?) and that many writers, facing the so-adult phenomena of war and racism, once thought Peter Pan a very good and healthy thing for a generation to aspire to. I suppose if there's any truth to that a specimen might possess an extremely diluted strain of the causes of Michael Jackson's alleged tendencies. Maybe not. But if Jackson's case outcropped what is burrowed into a large number of people we may collectively have to own up to some of that narcissism and see what's worth learning from it. Something other than the fiery hell wished by your initial posters.
        
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      <![CDATA[Another perspective on Michael Jackson, from Paul Theroux in Britain's Telegraph.co.uk: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/5664968/My-trip-to-Neverland-and-the-call-from-Michael-Jackson-Ill-never-forget-by-Paul-Theroux.html.
        
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      <![CDATA[Megan -- Thanks for the cogent, insightful commment.
        
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      <![CDATA[That's what I have been saying. A child molester is still a child molester. Peter pan/arrested development what ever. Great entertainer in the 80's. How we all forget in his death, that he still touched kids. 50year old sleeping with kids? C'mon!!!! MOLESTER!!!!!!
        
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      <![CDATA[Well then I'll repeat it. Fuck you ASSHOLE!
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:42:31 -0500</pubDate> 
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