September 25, 2009
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reading the news lately i can’t help but wonder if this country is headed for civil war. and it’s all because of the internet.
before, when someone voted against their side, people might have just accepted it as part of the process of democracy. walked away until the next election. but now that we have the internet and we can see exactly how fucking batshit insane the other side, whichever side that may be, can be, it makes us defensive and angry and protective of our side that much more. “if the other side thinks that, well, shit, they’re just fucking crazy and i have to shout as loud as i can to convince the rest of the world of it.” human nature being what it is, this scenario of group think gone wrong only ends in a mutual settling to the lowest common denominator. the group as a whole takes on the characteristics of the lowest of its members. i.e. the collective, or you and me, becomes as batshit insane and ignorantly stupid as that jackass on tv whose extreme opinions and attitude offend us so.
and in the end, the other side seems so un-understandable, so un-relatably extreme, so foreign, and so nuts, that, even though we have the same passports, we inhabit different countries. an extension of this is what has plagued US politics for the last several decades where the other side doesn’t acknowledge the ruling party as their government. conservatives don’t think of Obama as their president. liberals didn’t think of Bush as their president.
all because the internet gave a voice to the fucking crazies and immediately let them drive the direction of the discussion. this is all just an over-reaction to crazy people! it’s all a big fucking joke!
Comments (2)
the internet was around for george bush too and no one made excuses for him. trust me, it’s not the internet’s fault.
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perhaps because the crazies are a bigger part of the opposition this time around.