Before the internet became a common part of the American life, it was impossible for the lazy and stupid to have a voice beyond their own shouting. Now anybody and everybody can say whatever they want whenever they want.
And it's amazing.
Take this great example--a post on a message board:
As Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe said, "Fresh Activity is the only means of overcoming activity". And I'm sure he knows what he's talking about, although I have no idea who the hell he is. The point is that he's right.
That's right. Who knows who this guy exactly is, but he must be right.
The internet has given us a lot of great things (convenient shopping, enhanced communication) and a lot of bad things (sexual predators on social networking websites, P. Diddy on Youtube). But probably more than anything else, it has brought us a ton of useless crap posted by people who clearly have nothing worthwhile to say or no way to intelligently express their thoughts. Including this blog. And probably your blog too. Actually, the most revealing thing about message boards is that people generally have nothing worthwhile to say. So as I search the internet for nuggets like the one above, keep in mind that this isn't so much depressing as relieving; you may not have a whole lot of worthwhile things to say, but no one else does either.
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