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As in North America, Asia, Africa, Latin America, Europe and Oceania are united in at least one way: shock over the death of Michael Jackson. As part of our coverage of this cultural border-shattering event, we present this editorial by Sebastien Le Fol of France’s Le Figaro newspaper, which investigates why Michael Jackson’s demise has had the incredible impact reverberating around the world today. For Le Figaro, Sebastien Le Fol writes in part: “What fascinates us most of all about him is the hybrid, ‘genetically modified’ creature that he eventually came to resemble. Fleeing his roots, pushing the negation of self to the limit, he created an entirely ambiguous character for himself that was neither male nor female, adult nor child, Black nor White - half angel, half monster. He conjured up these living-dead that appeared in his most famous video, Thriller. This truly unreal creature pre-dated the virtual world in which we are evolving into today.”