The man who tries to change the world via the internet has less of an effect on it than the man whose only noteworthy activity in life is the ingestion of his own fæces.
You give the world too much credit. “The world” is unconcerned with the presence of any of us. We are simply the expression of a terminating process without direction.
That’s not the first time I’ve heard that tossed my direction.
Why is it that putting “is” before “ought” is a sign of bitterness in the perspective of many?
That the world “is” predisposed to a certain manner of operation, seen through historical redundancy, should simply be understood.
Who is to say I am bitter? Who is to say that my expressions haven’t always been bitter? Who is to say that their version of bitter, is the same as my own accepted version of bitterness? Perhaps your bitter, is my lucid ecstasy.
That’s just using the net to improve existing procedures. I’m talking about people who think they can swing elections with blogs, stop wars with online petitions, etc. When a “big debate” takes place on the Internet, all that happens is that the participants get their arbitrary opinions off their chests. The pen-pushers who make the actual decisions will probably never read a word of what they wrote.
It’s that truth again.
I’ve got my toilet paper near.
I’m ready this time.
If a single person could control the world, that would not be a very stable world, would it? If one pissy little man wanted everything to be a certain way other than what is, that sudden change would destabilize and destroy nearly everything.
I don’t wish to change the world, that would possibly be the most futile effort I could do. I stick with the things with in my grasp… that makes much more sense and it is easier. Help one person and they may help another…
Sometimes dreams can be too big. I just hope to not get nuked or catch a pandemic disease or become the victim of bio warfare. I would rather get run over by a runaway deer herd or school bus.
You’re right about this. I used to fill out these surveys for points,(which i used to get a radar detector) on the internet called harrispollonline or something. I totally just checked the boxes and didn’t even read them. Just as fast as I could do them to get point to get this radar detector.
Much later I subscribed to email newsletters from the republican and democrat national committees. I got one where Howard Dean was ranting and raving about Bush and was reading right along, then he threw in a statistic and cited the Harris Poll online. Given how I completed the surveys that they sent to me, this took away alot of credibility from his message in my eyes.