I read all over the internet various news and opinion articles, most of which, whatever point of view is espoused, are reasonably articulate and thoughtful even if I find I disagree.
Then I read the readers' commentary that inevitably follows.
Great Glory Be, there's boatloads of stupid out there!
And it's not just stupid, but positively, proudly, assertively, aggressively and ungrammatically stupid.
It's like -- they had teachers and parents who decided that self-esteem was more important than information.
It's like -- they all got trophies for showing up.
It's like -- the jobs they had suited to their skills and intellectual abilities -- you know, picking up an item and placing it in a different location -- got outsourced when their employer got tired of spending $32.00 an hour to pay $12.00 an hour to employees when the same work could be done in West Buttcrackistan for $4.00 an hour, plus $3.00 an hour in "incentives" to government officials, to pay the employee $0.80 an hour.
So, being otherwise not occupied, they decided to share their stupid with the world.
When a person is like totally under-employed and it's hard to fill up the empty hours of the day, but you're not yet at the point where there's nothing left but to get yourself tatood, a person will naturally turn to expressing one's self on the internet, no matter how pathetic and embarassing that self may be.
And that's why -- hey, why are you looking at me that way? What's that look supposed to mean?
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