Anonymity
Date: May 31st, 2008 7:39:16 am - Subscribe
Mood: agitated
Currently Reading: Lord of the Flies ( ISBN: 0-571-05686-5 ): Playing on Youtube
The anonymity of the internet has become one of our greatest tools for the expression of unpopular opinions and allowing us the freedom to express ourselves without fear of persecution from those who would wish to cause us unfounded harm. Yet as with everything that humans do indulgence is taken into excess and excess soon turns into ignorance.
Ignorance that believing just because we are hidden in the shadows that human decency and civility should be thrown out the window forgotten as we tear to pieces those we feel deserving of our scorn. I can not even begin to describe the ugly scene that major forum, chat, and video sites have become because of the sheer number and stupidity of its users.
They are indiscriminate of their prey. Ravenously they sink their teeth into anything that moves caring little one way or another for how it would taste. Anything from innocent children who never had the opportunity to alter their circumstances and should be helped and held up so that they may flourish into productive and maybe even exceptional members of society to fellow fools and idiots who deserved the misfortune that has come upon them and the scorn that they are presented with. It is ludicrous to treat the performer who injuries himself in his act the same as one would treat the fool who became injured trying to break into another's home. Yet this is exactly what is happening and it is far beyond sickening.
Their attacks and jeers are not even executed in a graceful manner. I can say there is nothing more amazing then watching a natural predator hunt down and kill his prey. I'm particularly fond of the skill and efficiency used by piranha while taking down their food. Yet seeing these internet junkies there is no vicious beauty in their words nor grace in their insults. Children could be far more cruel, and execute that cruelty far better then most of these hacks.
If these fools were to be ripped from their shadows, torn from the safety of their anonymity, I would love to see how long they would last against a being who truly knew how to break a persons soul. For without those shadows these people would be nothing more then rotten husks, yipping dogs trying to puff themselves up to look bigger then they actually are. They are the true beings in our society that need to be brought down and ripped out as if nothing more then a disease.
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