Here’s my new riddle for you.
Q: What do the Iraq war and Microsoft’s Vista operating system have in common?
A: Both are incredibly successful and you wouldn’t know it to hear the “buzz”
I know, it’s too true to be funny.
It is inevitable that the nature of the Internet will be jut like every other form of human communication. Bad news sells papers/gets votes/drives page views. There just isn’t a lot of blood to pull from the rock of good news. When you add into it the echo chamber nature of blogging, you get a perfect storm of negativity.
On one of my many mailing lists that I follow has recently erupted for the 100′th time into a sort of Bush Derangement Syndrome orgy. You know the drill by now…
- A bunch of the type of people who think calling him “Shrub” instead of Bush is clever
- Paranoiacs who think Karl Rove is a sort of Nitchzie / Stalin love child
- blah, blah, blah, Haliburton, blah, blah, blah
- blah, blah, blah, conspiracy theory that 9/11 was a government plot, blah, blah, blah
- “chimp!”
It goes on like that for a while. You can’t actually argue with them because frankly if reality had any chance of intruding on their mind you wouldn’t need to deal with this kind of idiocy.
The horror of the Internet is that it is very easy for these people to find each other and spin up to 25,000 crazy rpm’s. Kind of like all those websites where people trade stories about the off pellets they claim the aliens left under their skin or how often the “government” makes their television talk to them when it isn’t turned on.
The beauty of the Internet is that they are easily found and made fun of.
No comments yet.