The Pros and Cons of Blogging

I was browsing PEx earlier when I came across a topic like this. So here's my take on the issue:

Advantage is, everybody can go get their works and thoughts published now. Twenty years ago, there were only a handful of media where one can express thought and be heard properly - majority of them, government controlled. Either you'd have to be exceptionally famous, or exceptionally good to be heard. Now, anybody with enough braincells to move a mouse and an active internet connection can - theoretically - convey thought to thousands if not millions.

The disadvantage comes from the same idea that makes blogging advantageous. Even though technology has managed to make our voices and thoughts easier to hear through the internet, it has failed in raising the bar of intelligence for everybody using it. Giving everybody the power of the press without any form of censorship is like handing loaded revolvers to a bunch of untrained monkeys. While not everybody will ever figure out how to use it properly, those who can will still have problems in responsible usage - and somehow, the process of de-licing one another becomes a lot trickier for those lucky few.

This obvious introduction of power to reckless hands is no more evident in Time magazine's latest issue. Time Magazine's person of the year is YOU. That's right. You.

Let's place attention whores beside Hitler and The Pope. It's the greatest idea since people thought of making balloons filled with volatile, flammable gas as mainstream transportation. Way to contribute to the pollution of the internet, Time.

Imagine how much intellectual orgasm the so called political bloggers (scientific name: whining bedwetters) are having after reading about that. Now they're feeling all the more empowered behind their tool of trade (i.e. a computer connected to the internet, other friends with computers, and and a bag of Doritos for scent). With their overinflated egos and shameful ability to hide behind the shroud of anonimity that is the internet, they can indignantly spread/pollute the web with their senseless ranting, while at the same time achieving nerdgasm (orgasm for nerds) in thinking that they're actually changing what's happening around them.

10 years ago this sort of ranting would be what a barber would be doing while cutting your hair. I don't see him being crowned Time's Person of The Year. He doesn't even get the Barber of The Year Award in our town. And he's the only town barber. Because ranting is just that. Ranting. Advantage of this sort of ranting is that air eventually dissipates the sound waves of retardedness the man creates. Granted, it stays in your head, but a dose of forgetting can easily fix it. Now, thanks to the power of blogging, it stays circulating forever, appearing in your google and junkmail and messageboards like festers in a leper colony.

Freedom of speech and democracy are good things that should be spread around - at least on paper. However, those things are devices that need at least basic logic to use properly. But in real life, not everybody can afford the luxury of thinking. Now we have idiots publishing bulldung and retards voting for our leaders. It's the beginning of a very slow, agonizing end.

Back in the victorian era, they thought that a thousand chimps banging on typewriters all day long would eventually produce shaekspearean works. Now thanks to the glory of the internet, we all know this is untrue.

*bang bang bang*

I think I'm done.

*hits publish button*

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In other news, the final chapter of Wanted: Full-Support Priestess is out, making it the 57th chapter of the series. That means we only have the three chapter-epilogues to go before the whole story ends at 60 chapters. Thank you all for reading that helluva long story (sa mga nagbabasa).