Written by Numa on Wednesday June 3rd, 2009 in Prattle
On June 3rd or thereabouts, internet history was created with the establishment of taRANTism, described by its founders as " a collaborative 'social' journal . . . of impassioned rants"
This is probably a bad idea.
As clearly evidenced by the now famous "KANYE" incident of earlier this year, INTERNET RANTS ARE CLEARLY THE SUBJECT OF RIDICULE AND HAVE NO BASIS IN PROVIDING ANY RELEVANT OR INTERESTING INFORMATION . . . . .
But I digress.
I for one, am one of the seemingly unspoken majority of internet users that have neither a blog or a twitter account - one who feels that the incessant vomit-like expulsions of unintelligible dribble that pervades the "blogosphere" functions to collectively castrate both the intellect and common decency of internet users. Does it really matter that you can summarize somebody else's political views within a character constraint? Is it imperative to inadvertently convey to complete strangers that you both cannot spell and are in fact a closeted racist? Who reads this shit anyway?
But perhaps that's not in keeping with the spirit of the whole thing. Truly, if all that were published were good writing, where would we be as a society? We'd be short a few Dan Brown novels, for one. And that would be terrible for people who like Dan Brown, who, coincidentally, are total assholes.
The internet, while it continues to function brilliantly in its chief concern, the distribution of pornography, and within its lesser functions of social connectivity and the transmission of unparalleled amounts of information, should not be used to give a soapbox to those without common sense or rational thought. That's what television is for.
This is probably a bad idea.
As clearly evidenced by the now famous "KANYE" incident of earlier this year, INTERNET RANTS ARE CLEARLY THE SUBJECT OF RIDICULE AND HAVE NO BASIS IN PROVIDING ANY RELEVANT OR INTERESTING INFORMATION . . . . .
But I digress.
I for one, am one of the seemingly unspoken majority of internet users that have neither a blog or a twitter account - one who feels that the incessant vomit-like expulsions of unintelligible dribble that pervades the "blogosphere" functions to collectively castrate both the intellect and common decency of internet users. Does it really matter that you can summarize somebody else's political views within a character constraint? Is it imperative to inadvertently convey to complete strangers that you both cannot spell and are in fact a closeted racist? Who reads this shit anyway?
But perhaps that's not in keeping with the spirit of the whole thing. Truly, if all that were published were good writing, where would we be as a society? We'd be short a few Dan Brown novels, for one. And that would be terrible for people who like Dan Brown, who, coincidentally, are total assholes.
The internet, while it continues to function brilliantly in its chief concern, the distribution of pornography, and within its lesser functions of social connectivity and the transmission of unparalleled amounts of information, should not be used to give a soapbox to those without common sense or rational thought. That's what television is for.