Making An Asterisk of Yourself

The end of the baseball season conjurs up memories of Roger Maris breaking the Babe's record and the resulting asterisk that distinguished his accomplishment in 162 games versus Babe's 154.  It seems our world, replete with critics around the world via the internet, also seems to criticize, when accomplishments are met.  The world revolves around commentary with seemingly no one being satisfied.  For example, analysts have been ripping Apple for not being innovative in their products, yet,  Apple then introduces 2 new iPhones, enters into a contract for a billion dollars with the likes of LAUSD, and is on the move to be exposed to over 700 million subscribers in China in November.  The analysts attack Apple and Apple then sells nine million of the new phones and sells out on certain phones in a few hours.  We then have our Congress where partisans want to hold up the country and the economic recovery with the debt ceiling debate.  Every day citizens lose money on their investments and Congress goes on its merry way, criticizing the President, voting on measures that won't pass the Senate, and deja vu, the debt ceiling will be increased.  President Obama is a lame duck with a few years left in his presidency, so why try to politically destroy him?  He is not running for office and he does have the middle and lower class mandate from last year's election.
We are so very lucky to be in the United States at this time in history.  We are recipients of the wonders of technology and soon will be displaying wearable devices to communicate with the world.  We have the opportunity to improve ourselves and to pursue a better life than our parents.  Yet, we seem embroiled in the game of not being satisfied.  I understand not being satisfied if one is in competition, but do we meet everything in our world with distrust?  Do we qualify what we say, so as to cover us in case the world goes on attack mode?  Perhaps the 'hash tag' found in Twitter should be changed to an asterisk.  We can then qualify all of our comments and deeds.  Roger Maris went through a great deal of stress that probably affected his longevity.  He lost his hair and was mocked as not being worthy to beat Babe's record.  The same happened to Hank Greenberg, who was also Jewish.  The point here is that our society and social media should reconsider the hyper-critical view of things in the world.  We as humans are told that we are not perfect, yet we have expectations, which, if not met, are fodder for the pundits, talking heads, and those inane analysts.  We ceratinly have the right to opine, but do we opine too much, or is it qualification without representation, marked with an Asterisk?