| If
the world were a MySpace chatroom, monkeys could run
it
By Whitni
Webb
December 5, 2007 | I used to naively believe that humanity
was good and decent and more intelligent than the world
gives credit.
Then I went into a MySpace chatroom. If you ever want
hope for the future; do not go in there. Within five
minutes of watching in this sad little cyber room a
debate about how the Illuminati's hold on America's
politics are the cause of the Iraq war broke out; three
men came in wanting to hook up (with two women actually
chatting back); I was told I was hot four times, fugly
once; and everyone else not mentioned was calling someone
else a bastard, a racist, a slut or a sexist.
It's like a miniature civilization; much like the
world is a village model everyone learns in their social
studies classes. You know the one, there are a hundred
people that represent the entire world and out of it
20 are undernourished, one is dying of starvation, 15
are overweight, 20 don't have safe water to drink, one
has a university degree, and seven have computers, etc.
Unfortunately in my model 100 have computers, 50 can
only think and talk about sex, 20 are cyber bullies,
five are into role playing games, 15 are illiterate,
eight are conspiracy theorists, and about two are having
a normal conversation. All of them are wasting their
lives away in front of a computer screen.
Far be it for me to be a hypocrite, I'll gladly admit
you can find me in the MySpace chats every once in a
while. I'll be the one pretending to be God and telling
all the horny men that every time they masturbate God
kills a kitten. And then posts lolcats everywhere. Sure,
it's obnoxious, slightly vulgar and incredibly judgmental,
but I suppose sometimes it's kind of nice to go somewhere
you can be a complete freak, jerk, or slut and then
leave the room and head out into the real world where
there is a completely different conception about you.
Of course, some of these morons have to be morons in
the real world as well.
I suppose the best advice I can offer for anyone who
wants to explore a chatroom is that you'll find a lot
of stupid people, and as with talking to monkeys or
babies, you'll quickly find yourself lowering to their
level. If your IQ is simply just too high and you don't
know what to do, hitting up a chatroom would be an easy
solution. Before I went in there I could have been a
nuclear physicist, and now I post lolcats online to
irritate people.
I fear this world will never be the same.
NW
RB
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