I’m glad I’m not popular enough to have ever been in a blog fight. They look exhausting. I’ve only witnessed two up until now, and I’ll admit, I almost started one myself, a while back, until I cooled off. But, I just about joined in the fun moments ago, about to side with Ingram – Simply because I like Matt and I like Howard. When really, I had no business doing that, I haven’t read everything about the fight. So, instead, I refrained and thought, the first time I find myself in a blog fight, or want to join one, I swear I will just surf away. The only thing I will do is keep posting links, to this very post instead of making arguments. Whoever I’m arguing with, I’ll waste there time, with confusion and anxiety. Because, It’s a waste of everybody’s time. No matter what anyone on the Internet is fighting about, chances are, it’s just two different opinions until it gets personal. Stop hating folks, use your time more constructively. Just stop.
What provoked this is me reading a tweet, from Howard, with a negative comment with respect to Duncan. Then I read half of what he had to say on the link through. I’m purposely not liking to Howard’s negative tweet, because it wasn’t actually part of the fight which spawned Ingram’s pretty well structured, and likely right on the money, post – but, I admit, I don’t know the entire story, likely nobody does. Of course I had to check out Duncan’s site…I got half way down the first or second paragraph of his March 15th post, when he wrote about Bull Tits. That’s when I stopped.
Duncan referred to something, I can’t even remember what, as “useless as tits on a bull”. That’s when I remembered my boss at Zehrs, way back when I was 15 calling one of my co-workers that very same thing “useless as tits on a bull”. My boss liked to swear at everything, tell racist jokes, and was generally disliked. Causality or Correlation? You decide. He jumped up and down, pissed off about everything, most of the time. He was wrong more often then he was right, that was part of the problem. It wasn’t his fault, he was divorced and uneducated. That statement “useless as tits on a bull” is exactly my point, and a sign of things getting out of control. The statement, if used derogatorily (is that a word – I don’t care), is ironically less useful than whatever it’s attempting to call useless. Same goes for pretty much all other profanity. Even if the target of any such derogatory metaphor is extremely useless, or some other form of negativity, it [the statement] does no good, and adds no value. The statement, profanity in general, and blog fights have something in common.
Note: If you’re reading this, and it’s not March 2008, it means it’s the future now, and I’ve stumbled into a blog fight with you or someone you know. I am directing you to this link, so I don’t have to waste my time reading whatever personal attacks or other well thought out highly verbose debate you are part of. That’s right, it’s a premptive blog post and argument, so I don’t have to waste any more of my future time. This post is an investment. That’s present value.
We are lucky to be blessed with the ability to share information through the internet, don’t let humanity screw it up, the same way we abuse everything else we’re given. Eg. A diverse planet.
By the way, the other blog fight was between Julia and some random guy. It was a waste of time too. But to myself, I sided with Julia, but refrained from participating – cause I didn’t know the entire story.
Also, everyone should be careful what they call useless, if you read this post carefully, I didn’t call blog fights useless. I did call them a waste of time – because there are more optimum ways one can spend there time. Like vacationing, right Matt? Hope you’re having fun in Florida bud.
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