Máiría Cahill: Santised story of Michael Jackson’s life tells us a lot about what we choose not to see

He is an alleged paedophile, and yet you probably ignore that fact, because of the way his music still pulses through you. In traffic, you tap on your steering wheel in time to the beat. You replay him in your head in the shower. His music is stitched through your memories of weddings, hooleys and heartbreaks.