The verdict is
The verdict is due today: the one that determines the guilt, or otherwise, of Michael Jackson's doctor. I can already supply the overall verdict; it is that celebrities and the very rich can find people to do anything that they want.
The ethos of this is ingrained in our history whether it's Roman emperors forcing slaves and prisoners to fight to the death in the coliseum, or the retail environs of the nouveau riche promising that they can sell you anything from an aniseed ball to a zebra. If you've got the money or the power (or inevitably both) then you can get anything you want.
We know this and it has always been celebrated. We crave to attend the parties of the rich and famous and be associated with the lifestyle. Today everyone wants to be a rock star, a tv personality, a footballer, a celebrity, a millionaire or better still a multi.
If you can't be those things sometimes it's good enough to be close to them instead. You can play at them via the medium of the talentless shows or star in them as a reality star a victim of the all-seeing fly-on-the-wall.
Eventually you need only know this: in the orbit of the criminally wealthy the insects are drawn to the bright light they exude, sucked in by the glamour and power they will frazzle if they get too close.
Just as fame and power are intoxicating, proximity to it is valued highly. If stars aren't already bursting at the ego with their own self-importance then their surrounding posse of yes-men will help to inflate it until they are. Is that quite enough obsequiousness sir, would you like some more of my agreement with your largesse, can I possibly flatter you further? Why would any of these people risk their moment in the shadow of fame by upsetting the person who provides the glamour, the giver of their very existence?
Whatever the verdict in the Jacko trial you can know one thing for certain - as Dr Murray himself would've known it - if he hadn't supplied the drug and possibly administered it then Michael Jackson was rich, famous and powerful enough to have found someone else who would. In the world of the celebrity there is always someone willing to do your bidding.
Fame is fatally attractive, power is more so - add a little celebrity to this and it must be more powerful than any medicine. The drugs do work.
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Paul Flower - Paul Flower works in the music industry, a promoter, critic, (self)-publicist and all-round consultant to clients.
it is in fact the money that governs the world nowadays.. poor people are mostly the slaves of the richer ones..