This list is not especially good
… but I’m posting it for two reasons:
(1) I object to the use of the passive voice in the headline.
These are six people who destroyed their own lives.
- The first five made the posts that disrupted their lives.
- The last guy did not. He was destroyed by a post made by somebody else, but it was a post of him throwing a public tantrum, so he had only himself to blame. Let’s face it, there are phone cameras and/or security cameras everywhere, so one must assume that all public interactions will be recorded (and many private ones as well).
(2) Carlos Danger!
I haven’t thought about Carlos Danger in years, but now he’s appeared on my radar twice in two days. Today I saw the above list. Yesterday I read that the ex-con and registered sex offender, now 60 years old, is attempting a comeback on New York’s city council.
The Atlantic had a cynical take on this. They suggested semi-facetiously that it doesn’t matter any more because he is already single-handedly responsible for the fall of Western civilization. His sexting scandal re-opened an investigation into Hilary Clinton, which in turn propelled Donald Trump into the White House.