Angry at HNTB? Go make sweet love to yourself!

sido
2005-04-05T09:22:12Z

People are so funny when they get angry at this blog (like the good folks at Threatwatch*) for being this blog.

The purpose of HowNotToBlog is to not think like other blogs, not blog like other blogs, and not make merry like other blogs. If you want just another blog there are plenty to choose from (8,436,170 by Technorati's count). If you're looking for someone to more or less agree with your position (or at least be modest if they don't) and rock the boat only rarely and slightly, then this is not the place to validate your existence. Anything else would, to me, be a waste of time.

I want to bust your system wide open, you passive biased keyboard-hugger. If you don't want to use your brain give it to someone who will. You should want to re-create your world, too, and introduce some chaos into the mix. Without chaos, there is no evolution. We'd all look the same and be cursed with millions of diseases, each. Unfortunately, your egos, cliques and protected communities get in the way of timely change - you all blog the same. Most bloggers are too busy kissing one-anothers' asses and being polite. I call it blog incest. You have too much invested in current methods to rapidly realize new ones. So, when you see something new and/or different you automatically group with the community mindset - if the communities in which you are involved are ignoring it then you are very likely to ignore it, too. It works for you, but where is the original thought?

I'd rather shit 100 times and have 2 rubies come out of my ass than just be constipated with no insight other than what other people are thinking. It's no wonder that this article was popular - because so many people agreed with it. It's gotten so bad that most people just assume that if you blog you are a white male around a certain age, living in the US or UK, who blogs the same as do they, would link to the same locations, and pretty much thinks along the same lines. The funny thing is, no one sees anything wrong with this. It's like television in the 1950's. It breeds the kind of environment that produced what my original post was about.

Many great and wonderful things are born out of chaos, the unexpected, and the simply different. I will continue to fuck things up where you refuse to because you're too damn comfortable.

If every blog were like this one, the blogosphere would surely be in bad shape. But if there were no blogs like this one, the same holds true.

*it's a good community blog that I read several times a day. That would make me a member of the Threadwatch community, by their definition. I'm sure, though, that they think that all of their readers share the same views. But they would never be able to see it this way, which is why no universes will be birthed under their watch.