What’s Wrong with The Internet

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The worst thing that ever happened to the Internet was the day the TV people started getting into it. Those little jerks who need entertainment to find life worthwhile. They need escapism because real life is too tedious, too difficult to cope with for them. Weak genes that need to be removed from the pool. The worst thing that ever happened to life was that these people ever got a say in anything.

The Internet these days, the profitable Internet anyway, is about browse-mode. Worthless morons who want their fix of stupid laughs every time they log on. The content everywhere is dictated by Scary Movie fans. The short-attention span, light content. Nothing thoughtful. The only people who actually click on ads anymore are the people who need to know nothing in depth and who click on anything that is pretty and moves, especially if it tells them that they may win a prize. These ad-clickers don’t care about scraping either, so you can rip anything off, re-post it a million times and each post will make money. Pretty/cute/funny/”fail” pictures, articles ranging from 200-300 words in length and consisting of a short, easy-to-read vocabulary, will sell with this audience. The Internet now exists as a version of television. You must amuse or die. You must not force anybody to think or in anyway make them expend effort. Effort is bad, elitist, thinking and crap like that? Screw that. If people wanted to think they would be in school, YOU KNOW WHAT IM SAYIN???

People whose object in any endeavor is “amusement”, first, above anything else, need to be gassed dropped in a landfill. These are dead weight for society. So every writer out there is supposed to compete to give you your daily dose of yuks? The only function of information in your life is to make you laugh. You dumb worthless sack of feces, why don’t you take along, hard, honest look at your life and then maybe, after apologizing to the world for your pointless and far-too-lengthy existence, you can blow your own brains out.

What do you think of when you think “hick”? When you think of some rural dumbass who will never amount to anything in life? You think of somebody who spends their lives hunting, sniffing glue, microwaving small animals, worshiping NASCAR drivers, and commenting on Youtube. You do not think of words like “research”, “deep thinking”, or concepts like “a passion for reading”. Erudition and culture do not fit with the picture of hayseed. The dumber you are the more fixated on amusements you become. Those idiots who make up the stereotypical trailer-park or ghetto dwelling population do not spend their time on PBS or watching the handful of informative programs left on the History Channel, no, they watch professional wrestling, which would be a dumb sport even if it were real. They watch sitcoms like Two and a Half Men, and when there is nothing on TV that they want to watch they pop in one of those Larry the Cable Guy DVDs that they got at Wal-Mart.

Writing or creating any kind of content and being successful with it, is now about catering to the tastes of these people. It’s about being dumb, gaudy, communicating simplistic thoughts in the mode of something they are already familiar with. Never ever be original. Creativity will be scorned until it has been plagiarized a few hundred times. You need to watch the movie Idiocracy and understand that there is nothing “futuristic” about it. It’s a parable of society as it always was, and of the Internet’s devolution. If any of what I am saying makes sense to you then you are one of the few unlobotomized patients left on the ward. Know now that they are coming for you and your favorite site, the one that you think is clever and still funny, that you tell none of your co-workers about lest they corrupt it with their Twitter/Facebook sensibilities.