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:: Tuesday, July 12, 2011 ::

WTF

As citizens of the Internet, we are not compassionate or caring individuals. We have no patience for the slow, the stupid and quite frankly, the wrong. We know our rights and we want them now. We make rude comments and express opinions that will earn us the admiration of others in our bold brutality denouncing the status quo. We think that we are cool when we bully, when we are mean, when we join the rest of the world in pointing and laughing at, liking and sharing on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr about some poor soul on EpicFail.com.

(Well, sure, laugh, it IS funny, but I don't see the need of demeaning someone in their already humiliated state.)

What I've learnt, growing up on the streets of the world wide web, is that you'll get noticed for expressing views that rage again politics/the economy/the state of society/our parents/God/that stupid, stupid man who stopped his car in front of my front porch AGAIN or writing incisive commentaries that target, with scalpel-like precision, the shortcomings of others without considering the whys and the hows they came about. We don't care why you messed up. We just want you to fix it - never mind if we can't think of a solution ourselves. We're already so caught up in our own magnificence of being able to point out your flaws as this shows the caliber of our analytical minds. We can see the problem, and we think it's so blindingly obvious that you must be stupid not to notice it.

And we can't stop. We're validated by others just like us, the vocal minority, who cheer us on as representatives of a brave new world of change because we express a view that is, by and large, contrary to what we know (or THINK) society subscribes to. This is somehow good. Being disestablishment is good. We're the teen rebels of the high school that is the Internet. And we be cool.

We, children of the millennia, are very quick to point out that something isn't right, and we can talk it to death, but rarely do I see anyone doing anything about it. Well, beyond posting admittedly well-thought out arguments that neatly categorize the problems.

Yes, the irony of this note is not lost on me.

:: And that's all she wrote 10:54 PM [+] ::
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