In today's freak-obsessed media environment, the coverage of Steven Slater's outburst in dealing with a jetBlue customer unsurprisingly focused on the novelty aspects of the story--e.g., leaving the plane on an emergency slide. What a sad indictment of our ability to be entertained prevailing over what is left of our ability to think.
Steven Slater's significance lies not in its novelty, but in the fact that it suggests that American workers may finally be waking up to the sadistic nature of the way in which they have been treated for the past 30 years, ever since Reagan broke the PATCO strike. And it appears I'm not the only person who feels this way. Take a look at this as well.
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