So every time a new headline pops up about an airline doing what they have always gotten away with (losing luggage, killing pets), our first reaction is to roll our eyes and say, “Seriously? This is considered news now?” And I’m saying, “You’re goddamn right it is. Or at least, it’s the only form of non-news I’m totally fine with them printing.”
Airports seem to be poorly run debacles no matter where you go, while airlines themselves have been raising prices for years. If the money’s going to the in-flight entertainment, I don’t think those four episodes of The Big Bang Theory in the headrest were worth the investment. Every decade of air travel brings with it a new set of annoyances and complaints exactly like those. We’re all permanently pissed that we have no alternative but to deal with this suppository in the sky that we can’t escape without accidentally killing hundreds of passengers in the process.
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Killing hundreds of fellow passengers seems like a fine alternative.
Whether all of this hate has any merit is irrelevant. Airlines can’t fight back against the shared cultural perception that they see us less like people and more like flying cattle so stir-crazy we’ll pay nine dollars for a ham and cheese engineered so we can also taste the torment we’re seeing, hearing, touching, and smelling all around the cabin.
The video of that guy getting beaten was a rallying point. It let us be mad at an entity which usually irks us, but not enough to call anything they do an injustice, even though our tendency to exaggerate minor inconveniences is begging us to consider the uncomfortable complementary pillow a civil rights violation. Once people have decided they hate someone, every trivial thing they do becomes another reason to hate them. The severity of the offense doesn’t matter; throwing your mom down a flight of stairs and liking peanut butter crunchy instead of smooth are on equal ground. When they sneeze, you want to tell them to eat shit and die instead of bless you, because of course Steve would sneeze. Sneezing is so typical of degenerate pricks like Steve.