The Innernet is Making Me Unsmrter

[mbarrick]

I swear the Internet is robbing me of intelligence. I've been doing a fairly good job of not running in the special olympics as I resolved, but just the very act of reading though and looking at the volume of mediocre crap to find the occasional gem is rotting my mind. It's the mental equivalent of black-lung. Tiny particles of idiocy are piling up in the corners of my mind, forming into dust-bunnies of stupidity. The dunce-bunnies are arming themselves with the armour from pencil-drawn Manga-style anthropomorphic horse and kitty warriors from deviantART. They are strengthening their resolve worshiping flash-photos-of-airborne-dust spirits and promises of life-everlasting on the sunset-lensflare secret planet that will destroy as all. They crawl onto people's shoulders with pitch-forks made of excess exlaimation points and whisper irrational propoganda on both sides of irrelevant issues, turning any and all throughts into arguments about American politics and foreign policy. The dunce-bunnies eat nothing but spam and breed with aid of viagra. Even though I've been avoiding running in the special olympics myself, every time I watch a race more of the dust settles in my mind and new armies of dunce-bunnies form to steal valuable resouces from what few creative and rational thoughts I have left.

Comments

[mediavictim.livejournal.com]

Did you hear that due to tech-messaging (phone , IM, emial) that most US high school students are failing basic english spelling and grammar

as per one of my recent posts it is
Interesting that advances in communication have been the casue of its own self destruction.


The internet turned me into a raving libertarian- I never was political before the interent.
Anti Bush/Anti Moore.... And thanks to posts on Fark.com my faith in humanity has been stretched thin.

the trouble with freedom and democracy...

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

you have to take the good with the bad...and in today's world finding something worth spending your time on is rare...whether it be books, movies, television, music, art, the list goes on and on...so give everyone access to a forum where they can essentially anonymously present their opinion and you'll have to wade through a lot of garbage to find something appealing...but then again it has its upside in that thus far it isn't too restrictive...

[http://users.livejournal.com/_disdain_/]

Of course we can't forget about television, either. Certainly the internet has it's share of "questionable" information (for varying reasons); other forms of mass-media or not exempt. Best thing we ever did was cancel the cable and get rid of the TV antenna (that was over 10 years ago)... haven't had TV at home since (and don't miss a thing about it).

Of course, there will always be the people that exclaim "But you can always watch 'The Learning Channel'!" That may be true, but if I want pre-digested Pablum I will go to the corner store and buy a magazine, or perhaps a newspaper. This will guarantee that my vocabulary need not be any better than a 6th-grade student.

The advantage of the internet over other forms of media, in my opinion, is choice. While there are large numbers of really pointless websites (perhaps the vast majority of them), there are also some truly excellent sources of information. In what other form of mass-media can you choose from absolute pointless entertainment to research papers on any given subject?

Of course, this raises the question of how to tell the good from the bad. Personally, I am cynical enough to believe this to be a problem regardless of the method of delivery -- television, radio, newspaper, internet. It's all suspect, and it's all subjective.

[bitogoth.livejournal.com]

i am officially adopting "dunce-bunnies". i also know that it will take no effort whatsoever to work it into a conversation at work tomorrow. heh.