You Fail To See Your Frailties

	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.
Yes, the once meaningful award went to each and every one of us.
Time 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.
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?
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.
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.
The 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.

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.

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.