"I sketched out the basis of a more complex, more questionable theory: generally speaking, white people want to be tanned and to dance like Negroes; Negroes want to lighten their skin and straighten their hair. All humanity instinctively tends towards miscegenation, a generalised undifferentiated state, and it does so first and foremost through the elementary means of sexuality. The only person, however, to have pushed the process to its logical conclusion is Michael Jackson: he’s neither black nor white any more, neither young nor old, and, in a sense, neither man nor woman. Nobody could really imagine his private life; having grasped the categories of everyday humanity, he has done his utmost to go beyond them. This was why he could be considered a star, possibly the greatest — and, in fact, the first — in the history of the world. All the others — Rudolph Valentino, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Humphrey Bogart — could at best be considered talented artists; they had done no more than imitate the human condition, had aesthetically transposed it. Michael Jackson was the first to have tried to go a little further."

- Platform, Michel Houellebecq (ripped from Jtan)