Today I got sucked into a rather pointless conversation with friend through about a comment he made on another friend's post. I felt my friend's comment was a bit misplaced in the context of the post he was commenting on. The experience was very unsatisfying for me as exchanges of opinion usually are on Facebook. However the topic we discussed was one that I am very passionate about and sent me into an internet session gathering material to back up my arguments. I soon lost interest in the Facebook exchange completely and started reading various blogs and opinion pieces related to the topic I was researching. One blogger's statement about how he didn't comment on a NY Times article because he could just types his opinion into his blog with as much obscenities as he wanted and it would go onto the same internet as the NY Times and he didn't really care how many people read it. "It's sort of like pissing in the shower instead of the toilet: 'It's all pipes!,' as George Costanza once pointed out. So really, why bother getting out of the shower in order to submit something to the Times when it all ends up contaminating the same water table?"
I kind of like that philosophy and so I'm going try it. I've been accused by many of my friends of being very opinionated, and I have to agree. Why not just put it out there. It will be fun to see if I can stir up some shit and get noticed. At the very least I can just vent and not have to respond politely to everyone who has an opinion unless I feel like it.
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