A man gets run over by a bus and killed outside of the perimeter of an exclusive golf club hosting a major tournament, and the internet nodes of the global village chose anarchy over reason, whether bot or not, in engaging on a toxic course of floundering dialogue.
This is what happens when the iconic coin flip of the universe ends up on landing on the edge, and probability theory achieves its cycle of half-life in predicting the next-gen selection of gender pronouns approved by the Women League of Voters in conjunction with the esteemed establishment of Flat Earthers, the wavering plot and theatrics of the pre-clubhouse 2024 PGA Championship golf narrative remains a possible impossibility.
After 11 days intoxicated with drama extremism surrounding the arrest and brief detainment of golfer Scottie Scheffler during the PGA Championship, a city of Louisville attorney opted to drop all the charges against the famed athlete, which included a possibly of felony for apparently dragging a law enforcement professional nearly 20-feet in the wake of a colossal misunderstanding and lack of professionalism. The discovery process of Scheffler’s alleged criminal charges were delayed by the travesty and death investigation of a tournament volunteer who unfortunately died after encountering a bus in an unfortunate accident in the hour before the golfer attempted to avoid the subsequent traffic jam and gain access to the golf course.
Resolutions that achieve civility are apparently possible in the crux of the Information Age that do not result in actions via social media that go hand in hand with the character abuse of the aforementioned confusion and mind debilitating salvo of relentless pronouns that only make sense to the frazzled brain of Ozzy Osborne and disciples of groupies playing the uterus card. The course to the Course that Scheffler endured in the hierarchical cannibalism of corporatized media means that the much-anticipated official streaming biography profiling the lustful entrepreneurship of Heidi Fleiss gets bumped down from the primetime slot to the new wave ecosystem and role inducing cosplay now instilled within children’s television and a reinvented Sesame Street over string of events that would not be permitted into the Kentucky Derby paddock along with the silver fox person of the indelible Bob Baffert.
The audio tapes that were secured by the journalistic tentacles of the modern newsroom paint a hazy, yet workable of timeline of what actually transpired, yet has no recourse thanks to F***book, TickTok and other digital community brands.
As Scheffler attempted to circumvent the gridlock due to the fatality of the tournament vendor pedestrian struck by a bus, the golfer was stopped before entering the parking lot at the exclusive Vahala Country Club in Louisville by a city police detective pulling traffic duty on the fateful early morning of May 17. Donning a reflective vest obscuring his uniform, the cop was not glaringly identifiable as law enforcement. Driving a special designated SUV reserved for golfers and tournament officials, Scheffler proceeded to drive through the intersection after the interaction with the detective, but the officer latched onto the driver’s side of the vehicle and was apparently dragged, suffering minor injuries. The winner of this year’s Masters was ultimately detained and arrested at the scene and transported to the central jail for processing. He was curiously released in a little over two hours, managed to make his tee time, and fired off a miraculous -5 under 66 for the round considering the circumstances. What will be lost in the annals of history is that a
Not even the external high-def facial recognition cameras affixed to John Daly’s 100-foot RV hosting a sortie of “Hooters” cocktail waitresses parked on the side of the road, were able to capture the incident, which was a crucial development in the storyline as the Louisville detective “failed” to activate his body-cam.
The issue with the sordid narrative does not surround the culmination of the city attorney reaching a reasonable decision to not pursue criminal charges defending ineptitude, but with the reactionary state of the instant gratification based social media lightspeed news cycle and the immediate tidal wave of misinformation (in Newspeak “mismate”) following the immediate moments after the divulgence of Scheffler’s arrest. Within microseconds and a myriad of viral assumptions lacking facts reached billions of devices, and the race was on for end-users incessantly fabricating unsubstantiated storylines to enhance individual online personas and their precious online brands. Empathy and justice have perished in the modern nightmare of knee-jerk reactionists who face zero accountability in posting on a forum that is perceived as a public space, when in fact behemoth apps of the interactive software domains are actually publicly-traded private entities which have no obligation accommodate the First Amendment.
As the kingdom of assumptions were bombarded by armies of egos and sentiment if those logged onto the digital sphere, speculation without representation dominated the early moments as Scheffler was the one in fact “dragged” through the muck of social networking peanut gallery of legal experts and investigative reporters. In the waning seconds of his first quarter hour of being detained, the professional golfer was tested, tried, and tarred by the masses across the spectrum of the electronic universe, as rumors of involvement with the Albanian mafia, a tryst with Heidi Klum, and allegations of exotic reptile abuse percolated through the platforms built by the menacing nightmares of Zuckerberg and Dorsey once again redefined perceived reality. While the 15-second attention span exists as a universal character flaw plaguing the younger generations, the disconcerting script approved from the unwelcome editor of groupthink remains the crux of a hive mind focused on influencing space and time, at the expense of reputation and integrity.
The population demographics of the youth are not capable of distinguishing the difference between digital interaction and actually playing outside and climbing trees, have adopted a subconscious obsession with imagination and the pretended, as empirical evidence has perished with all the extinctive pretenses of the Dodo meeting pride of neurotic housecats in a failed effort to solve the rat problem in New Zealand. This dangerous concoction breeds a threshold of internecine warping truth and conjuring a dizzying amount of fiction that challenge the fundamental tenets of sensibility. However, as the accumulation of data is worth trillions to the tech and the energy industries, amending the legend of Scheffler encountering the mysterious detective is priority in pushing the superficial agenda of enablement and entertainment.
As the age of “guilty before innocent” abruptly dissolves into the abyss defining common law, mistakes and miscarriages of character and integrity have become normalized within the legal system. Of course, public figures will benefit from the abundance of confusion, while the average citizen faces the wrath and debacle of a jury selection process determined by the adherence to trending of individuals playing cancel culture, who disparage and ignore the accuracy and the fundamental rights of law-abiding citizens.
Fair and balanced has been transcended by convenience and sardonic, as the intellectual acumen of society has degraded to a critical mass, inclined to extremism and incapable of discerning fact from fiction. The truly frightening conclusion to this plot is that the collective memory has been dumped and only the beloved family members of the man who perished in the early Kentucky morning will possess any recollection of the tragedy that was erased been ungraciously by an ominous and sociopathic force.