Internet Comments Make You Dumber

One thing that I absolutely cannot stand is the proliferation of stupidity that the internet has enabled. Do I like the fact that the internet gives everyone a voice? Yes. Do I like everyone's voice? Hell no! Most of the comments I read on sites like CNN and *ugh* YouTube are so ignorant, so vapid and inane, that I feel as though I am becoming dumber and dumber each time I read one. 

So I have taken the step of banning myself from reading these comments. I do not read comments on YouTube or any other site unless I feel that site has a high enough threshold of intelligent commentors to justify my time. A cursory glance will ususally determine this, and after that glance I will either continue to read the comments, or never read them again. Most comments on CNN or other news sites seem to be written by troglodytes, and YouTube comments don't even make sense half the time.

I had half-thought of banning comments from this blog altogether, but then I realized that 1)I don't yet know if I can even do that, and 2) I am currently hoping this blog doesn't attract the kind of Internet detritus that seems to be clogging teh tubez as of the last 8 years or so. My own stupidity is annoying enough to deal with. I certainly don't want to have to deal with the stupidity of other people.

And remember kids, as a great meme once said:

 

"Arguing on the internet is like participating in the Special Olympics: Even if you win, you're still retarded."