It was last week Thursday, around midnight, that I logged onto my Facebook account, before tucking myself into a four-layered cave of warmth, and found myself gaping at one of my friend's status updates. It simply said, "Michael Jackson is dead. WTH???" Six hours later, 95 of my Facebook friends had updated theirs statuses in honor of Jackson, either confessing their love, expressing their condolences, or simply stating their level of shock.

This blog post is not about Jackson's sudden death because (like Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, Tupac Shakur, and Shakespeare) Michael Jackson will never truly die, no matter how much some people wish that he would. Still, MJ's death saddens me; he reminds me of Edward in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, a lonely innocent corrupted by the world. That's just my opinion. Jackson tried to change the world with his music and now that he is dead, he has become yet another commodity. The world wants everything that they can get of him now that he is gone — CD and DVD demands have increased, soon there will be new books on the "life and times of Michael Jackson," along with t-shirts, stationery, costumes, and sweets. Eventually there will be a movie, then Happy Meal promotions and Michael Jackson dolls…Because that's just the way that the media works.

The workings of the media is what inspired this post. No matter how much you may think that you hate the media, it is everywhere and all you can do is find a way to use it without letting it use you. The Internet changes communication completely, allowing communication to exceed boundaries in a way that was unimaginable a few decades back. People now communicate to the masses from behind their computer screens, laptops, or mobile phones, making the world one gigantic Hyde Park. Relationships form with a joint cause, attracting support across physical borders so that the world can be heard as one voice and, hopefully, that voice will finally be big enough to bring about change for the better.

Within a couple of hours, the news of Jackson's death spread across the world…Therefore, a couple of hours would theoretically be all one needs to heal the world. The world is not as big as it used to be; with our connectedness there is no excuse for the continuance of war, famine, human rights violations, and intolerance. All one has to do is care.

Tharuna Devchand