Saturday, September 4, In the year of our Lord 2010
Caronport Saskatchewan, My New House
Fuming over recent experience
Weather = Overcast but Pleasant
"And I beheld a multitude of stupid people who had neither discernment nor understanding and their number was as great as the stars of the heavens..."
(me talking to myself)
Online public forums are literally virtual cesspools of ignorance and stagnation. You can not have an intelligent conversation or discussion of a controversial or difficult concept without having a bunch of virtual ten year olds throwing in their 'well informed' and 'thought out' ideas. Experience and emotion, that's all they have. They do not stop to think, to consider, to bother to understand something that is new or foreign to them. They throw up verbal diarrhea and dump emotional vomit all day long. If it's not something that they immediately agree with they call it stupid. If it's something that requires some higher critical thinking to solve they call it stupid and come up with their own stupid and short sighted answer to a complicated question. If someone posts a well thought out and informative essay on a topic they will either not read it or be unable to understand it and call the author stupid.
Emotional response is not a valid reasoning chip, and neither is the very limited experience of most virtual ten year olds. Repeating the same idea or response over and over again into every topic isn't helpful in any way.
Then there are people who think, who reason, who can formulate ideas and respond to other ideas well. These are the people for which public forums should have been built for (but then I suppose they wouldn't be public any more). At best they can interact, pass the time, learn something new, compare notes, etc. Usually it turns into a group of people who can think who all think alike, agreeing with each other and creating stagnation.
Where did this all come from you ask?
I posted a well thought out essay on the nature of how the Zerg are underpowered in a QQ thread that needed some more meat. What I got back was a bunch of people who never read the entire thread, didn't understand my position, misquoted me and called me stupid. I re-iterated myself twice, and before ten minutes I already had four people scratching their heads, calling it stupid. I ask myself, what is the point? Stupid people should not be allowed on the internet, and by this I will be forced to include myself as well.
Drat you higher critical thinking!
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