The point of ridiculous has passed. We are now at the point of atmospheric retardation. The Internet with its vast cyber world of knowledge has also become a vast cyber world of lies, deceit and hilarious rumors that people actually believe. Let's start with the current presidential race. Disregard the fact that it's apparently been a Capitol Hill rule of thumb to not forcibly attack the running mate of your opponent (maybe this is part of the "change" Obama is talking about), the rumors that run about Sarah Palin are so ignorant and laughable. The only part that's not funny about these rumors is that people believe them... no matter how preposterous. Keep in mind it goes both ways when it comes to politics, but I'm surprised at the absolute desperation that wreak from Obama supporters that lead to asinine and absurd stories.
But this isn't a political blog. It's merely a recent revelation that has bestowed itself upon us in our daily expectation of internet procrastination.
So what is the problem with the internet then? It's too fast. For centuries upon centuries, the world waited in anticipation for 6 months to have a new book. Now we have a new website probably every 6 seconds (if not faster). It's awesome. It's incredible. But it's hilariously dangerous. Mostly because I believe people could be more rational, make smarter decisions and well... make their OWN decisions, but people choose not to. If it's on a blog by an anonymous writer in Peru, well what reason do I have not to believe it?
Even right now at Facebook.com there is a new group protesting the new Facebook layout titled "IF 10 MILLION JOIN MARC ZOMBERG WILL BRING BACK THE OLD FACEBOOK!"
Uhhh.... there is no Marc Zomberg. The owner of Facebook is named Mark Zuckerberg. But this hasn't stopped 616,449 people from joining this group as of 4:45 p.m. today believing this will actually happen. That's well over 100,000 people since I realized today at noon that this group exists.
Now if you send a link to this blog to 125 of your friends in the next 10 minutes you will get $1,000 from Microsoft and will receive 17 years of the greatest luck anyone could imagine. If you fail to do so, you just might die in the next 38 minutes. So hurry!
2 comments:
Hi there...
Greetings from Sweden.
My late father-in-law was head of Swedish treasury before the revolution. Since he knew it was coming he took precautions and hid some of the gold in a safety deposit box in Denmark. Now if you just send...
Oh wait. No. That wasn't what I was going to write. Just wanted to compliment you on your writing. Was just passing by, checking out the Zomberg story, but got stuck reading your other posts as well. Really entertaining. Maybe not the best word for it, "entertaining" that is. Or, well, maybe. Entertaining but also very well written and containing thoughts worth considering. With a twist.
Maybe it's time to quit *my* bitchin' and check *my* options. Haven't been laid off. Yet. But when everyday starts to feel like Groundhog Day maybe it's time to do something else instead of complaining.
Take care and keep on writing.
All the best!
/Thomas
P.S. #1 - Just loved the hoaxy wrap-up of this post. So fitting. Personaly I would probably have put it "something slightly unpleasant will happen to you. (Like an onion falling on your head)" though. Or something. But I guess that's just because of my own references...
P.S. #2 - 0.333 so far. Guess the Vikings won't bring it home this year. Either. Yes - the "Greetings from Sweden" was actually true. :-)
Thanks for the comment Thomas!
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