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The
news is bad for you.
You have been selected as Time
magazine's "'Person of the Year."
Imagine, You, with all your frailties, shortcomings, inadequacies,
and ineptitudes!!!
Using what was once a respected honor, Time
Magazine demonstrated its failing and flailing missteps and lost
ways by anointing each of us its 2006 Man
Of The Year... Person Of The Year... Entity Of The
Year. |
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Yes,
the once meaningful award went to
each and every one of us. |
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Magazine spun it as denoting the shift from institutions
to individuals -- citizens of the new digital democracy.
The winners for 2006 include simply anyone using or creating
content on the World Wide Web. |
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Consider how trivial and easy is
the use of the Internet. Could you, in your wildest imagination,
contemplate that being a user of the Internet might be worthy of an
award? |
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Consider how trivial and simple is
the insertion of content on the Internet. Anyone with a
minimally-powered computer, little technical skill, but who can type
anything, is empowered to publish anything on the Internet. |
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Time
Magazine's recently assigned managing editor Richard Stengel said, "If you choose an individual, you
have to justify how that person affected millions of people....
But if you choose millions of people, you don't have to
justify it to anyone." This softie apparently
feels compelled to avoid tough decisions, as well as, any
questioning of his decisions. |
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award has had to be conceptually renamed to "Person of the Year" and
then assigned to some other entity. That is because there are few
Men of either gender around these days. Most real Men and Women are
pausing, observing the chaos, and waiting for meaningful situations
to become so desperate that Men and Women will be recruited back
into leadership positions. |
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In the meanwhile the ubiquitous juveniles such as
those running Time Magazine -- and likely your place of employment
and quite likely you -- will continue to play games, reap false gains
from questionable or corrupt practices, and drive through red lights
with impunity. |
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Wise, self-assured people may join me in passing my
award on to those more needy. That needy crowd includes Time
Magazine's management that flails while watching its 75-plus-year-old
franchise dissolve and get lost on the Internet. Perhaps Time
Magazine's 2007 Entity Of The Year will be the black hole that
swallowed Time Magazine. |
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