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The world has become such a mean place that I want to jump out at the next bus stop.
The lynching of Toyota finally did it for me.
In our own eyes, this fine car maker is being battered by those determined to bring it down. If the accelerator and the brakes are such devastating problems that would warrant a lynching of Toyota, what are problems of Kia? What are the issues with Ford’s Explorer and Taurus?
I blame this phenomenon on the advent of blogs and the comment system. In this new world of instant talk back, the mean guys are getting the greatest attention. On the comments line up, when the first few people say something positive about anything, the next group assumes the moral authority not to repeat the good but to dig up the bad and amplify it.
Unfortunately, when you look deep enough, you will find something bad about the best of us. If the likes of J.F. Kennedy or Ronald Regan had been alive today, they would have been vilified to no end.
Where does that leave us? In Japan, a new Prime Minister who just won an election by breaking the back of the one-party system has been reduced to nothing. In America, President Barack Obama, despite his great win of 2008, has been checkmated. The political arena has been rigged in favor of those who provide permanent opposition.
The established pattern is this: a person or an object gets the kudos. The hype gets it to the top. Once at the top, a congregation of dunces begins an incessant attack on the person or the object. Very often, they find a loophole, legitimate or otherwise, from which they get in.
It is much fiercer if the person or object is almost certified to be perfect. That was how Tiger Woods moved from being the greatest golfer in the world to the greatest douchbag in the world in 60 seconds.
I cannot think of any person in the world today more perfect than Beyonce. With six Grammy Awards in a sitting, I say watch out. She will be the next thrown into the arena for the sport of lynching. It would not be long before we find a crack.
