Posted by Scorpio
on 9/24/2009, 1:08 am, in reply to "Why I'm Starting To Dislike The Internet"
--Previous Message--
: Once upon a time, there was a place where the
: socially inept could retreat from the
: critical, mocking world. There, they could
: meet kindred spirits, discuss common
: interests, and create simple works of art in
: a private, non-judgmental atmosphere. This
: place was known as the Internet.
:
: All was well until the mid-2000s, with the
: phenomenal emergence of social networking
: sites like MySpace and Facebook. The
: "Beautiful People" invaded the
: Internet en masse, relegating the social
: outcasts to the sidelines once again. With
: their annoyingly simple tastes and tendency
: to coerce and convert those different from
: them, the popular kids have succeeded in
: taking over what was once a nerds'
: stronghold.
:
: It seems that more and more
: "griefers" surface on the Internet
: every day, forming close-knit societies and
: elaborate inside jokes as they join forces
: to destroy the lives of those less
: fortunate.
:
: Search engines such as Google have become
: weapons, surveillance tools, used by an
: individual's potential enemies to dig up
: incriminating information about that
: individual. In today's struggling economy,
: business owners have been using the Internet
: to spy on their less desirable employees,
: desperately looking for reasons to fire
: these workers and cut company expenses. In
: addition, in recent years there has been an
: alarming rise in the number of elderly
: Internet users, who are only interested in
: violating the privacy of their younger
: relatives in a misguided attempt at love.
:
: Even our culture has suffered. Look no
: further than YouTube for examples. This
: unspeakable video inexplicably has over
: twenty million views. (Harry Dacre, who
: wrote the original "Daisy Bell"
: song over a century ago, must be turning in
: his grave.) And this grotesque cartoon is
: an international sensation, its atonal
: song's repetitive lyrics having been
: translated into a multitude of languages and
: looping infinitely in the nightmares of
: children around the world.
:
: The quality and integrity of our video games
: also grow more diluted as time goes on. For
: example, right now, there is a popular RPG
: out there. Its gameplay is lacking, its
: story is plagiarized wholesale from a
: bestselling fantasy novel, its graphics are
: simple recolors of the RPG Maker XP
: defaults, and its soundtrack consists of
: lifeless, sleep-inducing symphonies made by
: a young hotshot California music major.
: Moreover, the game's authors have the utter
: nerve to demand money for the downloads.
: Still, this game has an enviable following,
: with hundreds of regular members on the
: official site's message board. Odd how RPGs
: were once considered "video games for
: thinking people."
:
: With each passing day, our world becomes
: progressively more like filmmaker Mike
: Judge's quasi-comedic dystopian vision of
: the distant future. And sadly, cyberspace is
: no longer a refuge for independent thought.
:
Unfortunately, this happens every time something that's not with the mainstream appears. The best example is the hippies. Once a completely seperate culture, it's been assilimated into pop culture. I'm telling you, THE MAINSTREAM IS THE FREAKING BORG!
However, resistance is not futile. How can we drive these invaders out of the rightful property of the 'socially inept'? I don't know about you guys, but I say REVOLUTION! MASSIVE REVOLUTION!!!! We have to drive the people who don't belong here out to have the Internet retain its integrity, no matter how extreme the means. I may be sounding a bit (or really) extreme, but it's the only way I can think of solving this. Thank you and good night.
-Scorpio
P.s: Yes, I know that last sentence came from somewhere else.
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