Canadian bad boy infiltrates American culture consciousness

Booking mugshot of Justin Bieber, following his arrest early Thursday morning, January 23, 2014. 

Justin Bieber’s behavior has been getting out of hand for the past year now. From the claims that he throws tantrums in restaurants or that he punched Goofy in the face at Disney World — they all seem ridiculous now. 

How many times are his fans going to give him the excuse that he is a misunderstood boy who doesn’t know any better?

Recently, Bieber was caught under the influence of pot, Xanax and alcohol; he was also driving under the influence and decided to egg his neighbor’s house. We continue to say that we have had enough of Bieber’s acts of immaturity and seeing as to how outrageous and egotistical he is, we need to put ourselves to the test.

No, not by making a petition to the White House to deport and revoke “the dangerous, reckless, destructive, and drug abusing” Justin Bieber’s green card, but by noticing how society is actually encouraging his attitude.

In the entertainment business, there is no such thing as bad publicity. If people are really fed up with Bieber’s attitude, then no one would not continue to talk about him, buy tickets to see him, buy any merchandise or mention his name in any way.

It is embarrassing to see that at least 250,000 people have signed this petition to deport Justin Bieber when they should be focusing on or signing other petitions on more important matters that are going on in the United States.

The White House is now obligated to release a statement about a meaningless issue just because American citizens wanted to make a joke about how much they hate Bieber. “We the people would like to remove Justin Bieber from our society,” states the petition, but the government can’t do anything about this. It’s the people who worship him, who pay attention to his misconduct, who continue to publicize his actions who determine whether he is still worth noting as part of our social culture.

Our society is responsible for his actions today because we elevated Justin Bieber’s ego; he now feels entitled to misbehave.

Let’s not forget that our society named him as a phenomenon, a teen heartthrob and now a brat. Regardless of what our society chooses to title him, he knows that he will continue to be in the public eye and worshiped by millions of girls, despite his actions. 

Maybe Justin Bieber is not the problem. 

Maybe it’s us, for paying attention to a boy who truly believes he is a king and for continuing to acknowledge him as one.

What will be next for the Biebs? 

Will his fifteen seconds of fame ever be up? 

Will he be the next case of affluenza?

We’ll just have to wait and see whether our society has really had enough of him.