Out of Normal: The Wisest Words EVER!!!

September 19, 2003

The Wisest Words EVER!!!

My dear friend and highly respected co-worker Crutch pulled his gloves off and gave the most honest review of blogdom in a response to one of my recent posts. I normally don't go quoting other bloggers, but this needs to be published everywhere in blogdom. These words are harsh, and I am guilty of many of them. We all are. If we don't think we are, we are lying to ourselves.....

Here are Crutches words....

I love the internet world of blogs. A place where people can be so destructive and critical of others ideas and personality�s with zero consequences. It�s like group therapy without a moderator getting paid $180.00 an hour. No rules and the gloves come off rather quickly when things don�t go so well.

First off everyone knows that my posts for the most part reflect my 16 year old inter-self. Bevis and butthead if you will. That�s ok.
I don�t pretend to be anything else on the internet other than a moron. Most people who display themselves on the internet have an agenda. Some are Goth, some are gay, some are feminists some are liberals or conservatives. Rarely do I see anyone saying anything at length that isn�t contrived and agenda oriented.

There are some real people out there and there are a few artsy people that I feel are genuine �print, photo, video, cartoon� on the internet, but they are the exception not the rule.

Bob Curtis said that the internet is the printing press of the people and boy is he right. That�s the beauty of free speech and this medium.

The other side of the razor is bloging also clearly reflects how people have little patience for others with differing opinions and the ones with patience only hold their tongue if you play by their rules and stay pc..

Lots of people pretending to be something that they wish they were in real life is the #1 theme of the bloging community in general.

Am I any different? Of course not. If you worked with me at corporate America you would have no idea what a goof ball I really am. Insecure you ask? Of course most of us are but I don�t pretend to be anything other than my self..A fool.

A blog is a small window that most people open up in a voyeuristic attempt to be considered normal..Even by a stranger..

My final thought.......A blog is like the first day of school in grade school. Everyone is cool and everyone gets along because they don�t know you......... when the make their determination if they like you they still don�t know you but in cyber space at that point it�s usually too late.

Crutch

Posted by Broch at September 19, 2003 12:19 AM

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People think they know me through my words, and here I don't even know myself.

Posted by: April at September 19, 2003 12:40 AM

Cool description. First day of school - yes! Where we all begin another kind of 'education'. It is here where we get to explore who we are for the first time without mom and dad looking over our shoulders...it's just like that on the web - through our words we let 'slip' ideas and concepts without 'parental' guidance (also siblings, friends, and the general population around us who "know" us) - an awesome freedom. And sometimes others get to be the judge and jury - all allowed and understood as only one part of who they are in response to who they think we are in the moment.

Posted by: pam at September 19, 2003 07:39 AM

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