I've heard a dialogue however, that somehow illustrated why I'm having trouble blogging. It was between the likable loser protagonist of the TV series Californication, Hank Moody, and Radio DJ Henry Rollins. The following is its transcript:
Hank Moody: People seem to be getting dumber and dumber, you know. We have all this amazing technology yet computers have turned into basically 4 figure wank machines. The internet was supposed to set us free, to democratize us, but all its really given us is Howard Dean's aborted candidacy and 24 hour a day access to kiddy porn. People don't write anymore, they blog. Instead of talking, they text: No punctuation, no grammar. "LOL" this and "LMFAO" that. It just seems to me that it's a bunch of stupid people pseudo communicating with a bunch of other stupid people in a proto-language that resembles more of what the cavemen used to speak than the King's English.
Henry Rollins: Yet you're part of the problem; You're out there blogging with the best of them.
Hank moody: Hence my self-loathing.
(Episode 5, Californication).
