A testament to pomposity
Reading some other blogs, I can't help but become both disgusted and amused at how some use it in what appears to be very pretentious ways. I guess some will use their power for evil. I read one where a guy basically wrote in that he was sick and staying home from work. That's it. Now, don't get me wrong. I know the beginnings of blogs was tailored to teenagers with angst writing to the world all their daily delimmas. What did Bobbi Sue mean when she wouldn't go to lunch? Jimmy didn't look at me once today? blah blah blah. But now grown adults are using them too. So, all these adults are writing their inner hopes, dreams, and fears to the world not for some sort of solace or peace but for mere pride. Look what I'm going through world!!! Look at me!!! I'm sick and not at work!!! My car just died and I don't have a way to Chicago!!! I just passed my Bar exam and I'm a lawyer!!! Big fuckin' deal.
You know those movies where people read other people's thoughts but the power consumes them? They can't turn it off. They go mad. Yeah, those movies. I hate em'.
There will come a day when TV will deliver its promised "500 channels" to everyone. The web is already there. It is filled with all this fodder and little content. Think about this....some would say you just wasted a couple of minutes of your life reading this crap. Go live you bastard!
posted by Arnold Friend at 8:15 AM
1 Comments:
Yes, but that is the entire point of blogs, is it not? The fact that you can put your thoughts up, no matter how poignant or inconsequential, for the world to see...and nobody can stop you!
You can write about anything you want and people will form their own opinions as to whether it's lame or pretentious or humorous or interesting. Anything...from passing the bar exam, or even how an alternate version of yourself is doing in life, can be typed out and some people might just read it. And out of those people, some of them MIGHT just ENJOY reading it. But you'll never know, and really you probably shouldn't care.
Your thoughts are your own, and it's up to you whether you want to take the time to share them or not.
In the end, realize that you just spent a good amount of time reading that blog about someone being sick and then writing your own blog entry about it, and enjoy the irony with me. ;-)
11:19 AM
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