I know that cleanliness isn't equal to godliness, but I do think there is a pretty high correlation between emotional health and the state of one's home. We're not talking about mild clutter with MJ. It appeared to me that he was quite an accumulator and hoarder. He appears to have had way more 'stuff' than he had the capacity to display and enjoy, and despite the fact that he could have afforded the best housekeeping staff in the world, he didn't use his money to 'buy' anyone or anything that could bring some order to that chaos.

Order isn't necessarily a sign of strong emotional health, either, btw.... but I do think extreme chaos comes from something being off and that was some pretty extreme chaos.

Some of those pix looked like storage areas, but some were clearly of living areas. And even if they were storage areas... they were still a mess. "Storage" doesn't mean "Tossed everywhere" for everyone.

Some people don't opt to save and store every item that comes into their lives. Some people don't opt to obtain more and more stuff when they are already bursting at the seams. Some people keep their stored items in nice, stackable rubbermaid containers.

For whatever reason, he chose to maintain stuff and chaos over maintaining order.

And none of that makes him *bad*. I just think it's all a symptom of emotional chaos. I think people who obtain and keep so much stuff often see the *stuff* as evidence that they exist and have a purpose. And sometimes it is a symptom of an indecisive mind that can't determine what has true worth and what's just 'more'.

In the grand scheme of things, it doesn't really matter. But he did choose to lead a life in the public eye and to present an image that many millions of Americans and Europeans bought into, investing their money and their emotions. For that reason, I think whether what was going on behind the scenes matched with the image or not *is* going to be newsy.

On one level it's sad that he can't just die, be buried, and not have everything about him cross-examined and scrutinized by the world. On the other hand... it's to be expected. Some of those Brady Bunch kids just faded into the woodwork once they became adults, never to be heard from again, so to throw them in the post-mortem spotlight would be over the top. But MJ? I think it's to be expected.