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This effort to "get bloggin again" is also part of an effort of my own mentally scaling down online. I have shit and little sites everywhere and I am hunting them down and deleting when necessary, and in one case, I am posting a link to another blog abandoned a few years ago. I called it the Local Boob and at that time I was trying to play political blogger not unlike the past several posts here. Obviously, I still care about that shit BUT I just don't have the stomach to keep at it all the time; say like a certain Guither guy I know. All the same, I need to vent sometimes and my narcissitic, me-first, personality jives well with blogging and social networks and all that other hooey that keeps people in touch online and estranged in real life.
I do love me the interwebs as it has much use but there are peculiar downsides I have noticed more and more and we rapidly move further and deeper into our computer machines and further away from actual human interaction. One obvious one is the negativity. Ever call a complete stranger on the street a "dicknosed cumsucker" to their face because the way they looked or perhaps expressed an opinion with a T-shirt? Hard to do in life as you really don't have time and do want to be courteous and polite and so forth...But online? Gloves are off baby! Hell their ain't even gloves in the first place there are just text, code and typing so it is way easy to call someone's lovely grandmother a "near-dead, stinking cunt" because she happend to comment on a baseball article with an opinion different than yours. Funny how that goes, eh? You see online these are not other people, we don't psychologically respond that way, we see icons, avatars or simply text denoting "someone or something" and thus it becomes patently simple to not just disagree with someone but to also go on and mention that they should have their intestines forcably removed and raped while stabbing out their eyes with a blender. It's not unlike road rage only with more creativity and thought applied to random attacks. We don't generally see other people driving around in traffic, just other cars...THINGS...So that is partially why it's so easy to yell invective in the confines of our own automobile where no one else can hear. Sometimes this can be HILARIOUS! Sometimes you can barely notice and sometimes, I at least, feel bad.
In this big, polite, PC, Diversity is good, world we all float around in you simply are not allowed, or allow yourself, to let the drawers down and let the turds fly...Online, however, you can tell Sister Theresa to go fuck a rusty train spike and die from tetanus-aids while bleeding from the holy rectum without a moment's pause! Gotta LOVE IT!
The other thing that has developed over the years, particularly with white people, are the same kind of retarded, unspoken, social stigmas that come up with any thing else in the realm of pop culture. "This" is cool and "that" is dumb and therefore there are various kinds of judgements one can make if you happen to prefer, like, or are unaware of "that." A fantastic example is how people "feel" about Facebook versus MySpace. MySpace, starting around aught four or five, became the internet place to go. Friends, bands, lovers, narcissitism it was wonderful but soon, not unlike how "dating people you met on the internet" used to be "uncool," so too went MySpace. If you are "in" now you are on Facebook! Which happens to be the same in almost every way but the organization and color scheme but it is SAFER! There's less spam and therefore it is not nearly as "whorish" as that shitty, dirty, spam ridden, slutty, MySpace...BLECH!
Nevermind that the internet is actually computer code that tells your computer what to show you in the form of text, photos and colors and really is actually not anything at all. Yet, should you use your computer to manipulate code on MySpace Or Craig's List (in R&R anyhow) or a place that has...dare I mention...Pornography...Then you are a lesser person. You are scummy, dirty, blah blah blah. Now, really, I am just stating an obvious notion that has also applied to what kind of movies you watch or like, TV, Books etc. It is simply culture and personally it doesn't really matter. I think I just find it amusing at how much stock we all put in the proverbial shadows on the wall. People are funny like that! For that matter I'M just as guilty (as it were) as anyone else is...I just wanted to riff on that notion a while. Share yo thoughts!
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