Deeper Meaning

I watched the episode of "Everybody loves Raymond" where Ray discovers that a local radio personality doesn't like him. In the final confrontation the man is brutal to Ray in a way that I am sure most of us can relate. When Ray presses for an explanation of why the man, who he has never met, should dislike him, the man explains that he "doesn't get it". Doesn't understand why other people like Ray. He has heard him speak, seen him in public, and doesn't get it.

Permission for success and the construction of a positive personal brand is granted by the mutual consensus, generosity, and often times the complacence of ones peers. For at anytime, the determination of a single dissenting voice could undermine the fragile ego, integrity, and promise of any man no matter how virtuous. Where the virtuous man can be destroyed by lies, the un-virtuous are destroyed by truth. Thus enemies are created and karma gets it teeth.