He's an alcoholic and a pothead. He is surrounded by evangelists who exploit his vanity and ignorance for money and publicity. He seems to have an almost unerring ability to solicit friendships and collaborations with the worst people.
He has ruined lives and careers with no palpable remorse and no appreciable change of behavior. He and people who work for him commit crimes in public for which they are never charged or for which their victims are otherwise unable to obtain restitution.
Although he could pay to attend any school in the world without debt, he has no ambition to be educated and no awareness that education is worth having. At 23, he has no adult powers of discernment and routinely exhibits functional illiteracy without a shred of embarrassment.
His main sexual activity other than promoting crime seems to be the solicitation of near-prostitution. When he wants to have sex without preamble, he contacts a modeling agency and women are sent to him.
That's a picture of the Instagram profile of Mr. Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun.
The fulfillment of Mr. Bieber's childhood dream of pop stardom, facilitated by Mr. Braun and the many other people who have been enriched financially, if in no other way, by Mr. Bieber's success, is one of the worst things that could have happened to Mr. Bieber, to the people whom he has already victimized, and to the many other people who are going to be his personal victims and the victims of his promotion of crime.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, June 19, 2017 @ 5:45 a.m.
