The T-Mobile-Justin Bieber collusion is particularly insidious because Mr. Bieber has reactivated his Instagram as part of his paid promotion of T-Mobile products.
It seems as if he doesn't think he can deal with me as a person without getting a corporate bully to help him corner me online, applaud his criminal invasions of my privacy and magnify whatever immature and hateful thing he wants to publish about me from now on.
I suppose it will be another barrage of snide and inarticulate abuse, which is what most of the conglomerate does.
I think this collaboration of Justin Bieber and T-Mobile has to be something that was negotiatated by Mr. Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, although I can't know if it was Mr. Braun's idea or T-Mobile's idea. From what I know of Mr. Bieber, he was discovered at YouTube at the age of 12 by Mr. Braun, who then took over Mr. Bieber's life.
I think that the entertainment industry's engulfment of children and adolescents and exploitation of their talent and naïveté should be legislated against and discouraged in every possible way. Not only can nobody argue that Mr. Bieber wasn't an unusually innocent and caring child, nobody can argue that his metamorphosis from that child during the past 10 years isn't a sad indictment of the entertainment industry.
Mr. Braun's negotiation of the T-Mobile-Justin Bieber collusion was perhaps what people should expect of Mr. Braun, whose mindset seems to be that of someone whose obsession for personal power is inversely proportional to his level of integrity. Since Mr. Braun has also demonstrated that he has significant political ambition, I hope that both his mania for personal power and his political ambitions will be thwarted as much as possible. Is he the reason that Kanye West has mentioned running for President?
I think that Mr. Braun is manipulative, although perhaps not extraordinarily so for the entertainment industry, which seems to consist almost entirely of corrupt and manipulative people.
Copyright L. Kochman, February 4, 2017 @ 3:05 a.m.
