The Tragic Truth Behind Michael Jackson

Big thanks to Audible for sponsoring this one. Right now, Audible is 99 cents per month for the first 3 months and then 8.99 a month after that. That’s actually insanely good. Check it out now: https://www.amazon.com/Audible-Books-and-Originals/b?node=18145289011&linkCode=ll2&tag=volksgeist-20 More links! My website: http://volksgeist.org Follow me: http://instagram.com/volks.geist Support directly: http://patreon.com/volksgeist Secret Project: http://showrunner.volksgeist.org LLM generated description for SEO (not for reading) June 25th, 2009. I was nine years old, sitting outside, eating a hot dog after swimming — when everyone around me started yelling that Michael Jackson was dead. It didn't mean much to me then. But I remember that moment more vividly than almost anything else from that entire part of my childhood. And here's the thing — so do you. Everyone, everywhere, remembers where they were when Michael Jackson died. Almost nobody remembers how he lived. Because the version of Michael Jackson we all know — the myth, the punchline, the tragedy — buries the actual story. The story of maybe the smartest, most ambitious, most deliberate entertainer who ever existed. A man whose fame wasn't something that happened to him. It was something he did to the world. There is no one single story of Michael Jackson. The most famous man who ever walked the earth was far too big to contain just one thread. This is how he lived. #volksgeist #mj #michaeljackson #ad #audible