This is such a wingnut site that a moonbat has to be the one to provide us with links to conspiracy theories. Sorry, BB, never heard of those sites. Glad you’re keeping up on them. I can see you have a life.
I don’t think it’s just extreme wealth – it’s extreme wealth plus celebrity that seems to really twist people’s heads. (We have no idea what percentage of very rich people who are private/secretive about their wealth are really screwed up precisely because they’re not the ones who end up in “People” magazine.)
That’s why so many celebs seem to think everyone on the planet is fascinated by their inane opinions on politics, global warming, the meaning of life, etc…because everyone they know treats their every utterance like the Word of God. Jackson was celebrity weirdness taken to the nth degree, but then he got famous earlier than most. Of course, Shirley Temple was a child star too, and grew up to be a useful and relatively normal human being, but her movie career ended and she lived out of the spotlight for many years before becoming an ambassdor. Jackson never had a breather.
It’s funny – the evidence has long been in that wealthy celebs frequently lead miserable lives and yet millions would be willing to cut off their left arms with a hacksaw if they could become rich and famous by doing so. I think people secretly think that they themselves would do it right – they would know how to be a sane and happy celeb. In reality, none of us really have an idea of what it would be like to have to have the ability to buy anything we wanted, coupled with adoring fans and a need for bodyguards and press agents. (And also the intense fear they must have of losing it all, of becoming has-beens.) We imagine we’d be the same people we are now, only with bigger bank accounts. No, we’d be different. I think of some of the teen boys I know – give them a couple of million and access to all the drugs and groupies they wanted, and they’d end up like Jim Morrison or Brian Jones.
