Once In A While
I thought I was going to blog more often than I have. Things have been dry for me. I haven't had much material to work with and it's always been my thought that if you have nothing to say you shouldn't say it. I see by perusing other blogs that not everyone thinks likewise.
While I appreciate the outlet (Many thanks, Google.), I wonder if it does any good, for me or for anyone who might stumble upon it and scan through. So many people say so much that adds to so little on the Internet these days that even the gems get covered by clutter. You could waste hours at a time clicking on the "Next Blog" button in the right hand corner of this page without seeing anything that's worth the paper it's printed on. And you can't get your money back for the time you spent.
If I see another blog with the word "truth" in the the title, I'm going to hurl. This would be a lot saner world if we had fewer people trying to pass off their opinions as the truth. Here's an idea: What if someone really did report and let me decide? Give me some facts, show me where I can verify them myself if I want, and I'll get along just fine.
But, again, judging by the popularity of talk radio and television spin-meisters, I stand in the minority. People don't want to be told the truth. They want what they believe reinforced. For that you can't blame the show hosts. They're just satisfying a demand. It's the somnabulent sheep -- the people who read a headline, if they see a newspaper at all, and think they know the whole story -- who don't think, don't question and don't care enough to know the context who are at fault.
You know the kind, the one who hears that going outside unprotected from the sun is good for you because it causes your skin to produce vitamin D and throws away his sun block, not bothering to listen long enough to hear that you only have to spend 15 minutes a WEEK outside to get the benefit.
Don't take my word for that, please. Get it from a more credible source than some wingnut writing on the Internet.
While I appreciate the outlet (Many thanks, Google.), I wonder if it does any good, for me or for anyone who might stumble upon it and scan through. So many people say so much that adds to so little on the Internet these days that even the gems get covered by clutter. You could waste hours at a time clicking on the "Next Blog" button in the right hand corner of this page without seeing anything that's worth the paper it's printed on. And you can't get your money back for the time you spent.
If I see another blog with the word "truth" in the the title, I'm going to hurl. This would be a lot saner world if we had fewer people trying to pass off their opinions as the truth. Here's an idea: What if someone really did report and let me decide? Give me some facts, show me where I can verify them myself if I want, and I'll get along just fine.
But, again, judging by the popularity of talk radio and television spin-meisters, I stand in the minority. People don't want to be told the truth. They want what they believe reinforced. For that you can't blame the show hosts. They're just satisfying a demand. It's the somnabulent sheep -- the people who read a headline, if they see a newspaper at all, and think they know the whole story -- who don't think, don't question and don't care enough to know the context who are at fault.
You know the kind, the one who hears that going outside unprotected from the sun is good for you because it causes your skin to produce vitamin D and throws away his sun block, not bothering to listen long enough to hear that you only have to spend 15 minutes a WEEK outside to get the benefit.
Don't take my word for that, please. Get it from a more credible source than some wingnut writing on the Internet.
posted by jack at 6:24 PM
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