Thursday, January 20, 2011

The Worst Thing About The Internet

There are so many hours of my life I can never get back, lost to mindless time sucks like this link: The 50 Most Loathsome Americans of 2010

The kicker is you read the thing, a bile filled piece of all the human beings the writers would like to not-exist for the crime of not acting/thinking/being like the authors themselves, only to reach the #1 culprit. All of us.

Your brain’s been cobbled together over millions of years of blind evolution and it shows. You’re clumsy, stupid, weak and motivated by the basest of urges. Your MO is both grotesquely selfish and unquestionably deferential to questionable authority. You’re not in control of your life. You wear your ignorance like a badge of honor and gleefully submit to oppression, malfeasance and kleptocracy. You will buy anything. You will believe anything. You believe that evolution is a matter of belief. You likely scrolled down to #1, without reading the rest, because you’re an impatient, semi-literate Philistine who’s either unable or unwilling to digest more than 140 characters at a time. You think Epic Beard Man is a national hero and that Bradley Manning might be Eli and Payton’s brother. You believe in American exceptionalism despite the contrary, compelling and overwhelming evidence. You tacitly partake in all manner of atrocity without batting a lash. You’re actively participating in our species’ extinction and you’re either in denial or you just don’t give a shit. You escape into every sort of mind-numbing distraction and ridiculous, convoluted fantasy, so you don’t have to face the bitter, terrifying fact that your life is utterly meaningless.

Yep, this is the modern "progressive" in a nut shell. The parousia would have been ours already if we only listened to our saviors - evidently that is supposed to be the authors of this priggish prattle, who lack only humor, humanity, humility, intelligence and common sense.

Otherwise they are perfect.

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