The internet has got a lot to answer for. There was a time when every self-respecting
introvert could exist without having to wonder about the rest of the world. We could just go about our business in the certain belief that we were better than everyone else.
Then the web came along and spoiled everything. And to add insult to injury, we have to put up with the inane chatter of extroverts too, but now magnified by a gazillion bytes of bandwidth.
But at least we have YouTube and the ability to prick the pomposity of the vain and pompous. So not all bad.
But the idiom of the blog has produced a convergence of style, phrase and self-congratulatory rubbish, so it's become hard to isolate those with prescient insight from those who just like the sound of their own typing. Of course I am aware of the irony of this on my very own blog.
But the opposite form of the genre has also become a terribly dull cliché of self-deprecation, as if the writer's opinion doesn't matter. In which case why are you bothering?
Pictures can help. Here's my minibreak in a few.
Yes there are even two clichés mixed in with the visuals too. "Oh look I'm drinking, how clever", and "this is me, taken by myself with my own phone, a selfie".
FFS.
I rode to work a couple of times this week and thought about all this. The really hackneyed blogger would have pondered it, because that suggests depth.
And after bailing on today's planned century, in favour of a
metric one, I realised that JDB, The Wire and the second Mooro have come up with something so fantastic that I have to. Too.
I can't keep churning out the same old shit.
