NeverLand

The sudden death of Michael Jackson and the tsunami produced by the media brings up situations and events perfectly understandable to all people in all parts of the world.
The first should be to consider our need for idols, myths and paradigmatic figures that help us to dream of a condition beyond reality - that we all seek a new face, the face ideal of the figure transfigured into what we would look !
He is the real and the imaginary merge in an unfinished being unattainable mix of fantasy and reality as possible, enigmatic character, representing the stage of life satire and tragedy, glory and suffering, light and shadow - both very loved and very unhappy ...
All, without exception, have some pieces of that complex tile portrayed the life of Michael Jackson, embedded in our personality and this is the answer to - previously unheard of in history - expressing sympathy for the entire planet.
Who has not taken his childhood "Ben your mouse, dead" even as part of our imagination?
And what about the confession in the Opra Winfrey program that did not used to looking in the mirror because it was considered ugly and not bear to face his own image?
And the cruel treatment suffered by the father?
And the unlived childhood on account of recoveries and responsibilities that had to take like an adult?
Michael Jackson explains our ambivalence, our escape from reality, the many selves that clash in an endless construction of our personality - black, white, adult and child!
The second thing to consider is "Neverland": the real world is too painful to live in it all the time - Michael Jackson wants to be Peter Pan, and needs its "Fantasy Island" as a refuge for his dream.
There are animals and children (away from the cruel world of adults), immersed in the magical atmosphere of a chimerical world, which is hope for us all to transcend reality, breaking the boundaries of the human condition.
After all, why should we wonder that?
Philosophers, poets, writers and prophets, each in its own way, built his "Neverland" without which reality would be impossible to be supported!
Be the legendary Ithaca (home of Ulysses), in mythological Atlantis of Plato, Thomas More's Utopia, in the City of the Sun by Tommaso Campanella or even the idea of heaven or paradise as an escape, we find the same sentiment expressed in different ways : there is this utopian space, this "Neverland" within each of us!
Perhaps, therefore, the outcome of the life of Michael Jackson has caused so much commotion around the world: because, in a sense, nobody can say that is not part of that story - where myth mixes reality - ranging from children's fantasy populated by witches and fairies, through hedonistic fantasy of a society obsessed with aesthetically perfect - which to live the charade of consumer welfare as a supreme goal - until the blind religiosity that has imaginary heavens - where crowds who project their illusions refuse to grow up and face the real life lived outside the stage where each of us, willingly or not, has to live his role.