I know there’s some people out there who like to tear down any ambition because they’ve lost their own.
Frequently, they accuse others of treating the internet like SRS BSNS while spending hours on the internet.
They deride others’ work as “gay” or “stupid” while pushing around their same failed projects, or lives that basically have no direction.
Such people are the first to call someone else stupid, and to demand that their own “rights” be respected, but the last to do anything important.
They exist at a level of conversation and symbols, promoting themselves by trying to undercut others with insults, vitriol, mockery, and so on.
Nietzsche called these people tarantulas because they thrive on the misery of others, having nothing but misery for themselves.
The internet empowers such people because it makes it easy to pretend you’re more than you are. $500 computer and $50 a month for internet is all it takes. The knowledge required is menial.
That way, you can fail at life and act like a king, much like hipsters contribute nothing culturally but act like cultural icons.
I find it interesting how these people are the first to accuse others of being internet addicts, usually when those others propose some form of action. However, the accusers are the ones who spend every evening on the internet just trying to socialize.
And who wants to be so socially broken they can only socialize through the internet, where every persona is fake and compelled to like you because you have tastes or lifestyle choices that reinforce their own?
Tarantulas are miserable because their lives didn’t work out the way they wanted. And in desperation, they have only one goal: destroy others, or any ambition, so they feel better about their own dead ambition.
This is why we hate the internet. It has captured the welfare cheats, deadbeats, basement dwellers, disability fakers, callow youth, television addicts, people who cannot tell fantasy from reality and people who love to lie about themselves, and given them a power they could never have in real life.
And then their behavior is appalling only to those who could see the possibilities of something better than angry monkeys tearing each other down to feel good about the next 8-5 shift doing something menial: food service, call center, what used to be called “clerkship,” and so on. Jobs that a trained monkey could do without using its brain.
On the internet, they are kings. In reality, they are cyberpeasants.
this article is gay. I,m gonna go back to playing with my 9 inch penis.
So, if I understand you correctly, only our God-mandated betters, endowed with money (which is the only measure of worth) should have access to an audience. They can then continue to sell us shit we don’t need instead of ideas you don’t want to hear.
How was your potty training experience?
Brett,
You’re exactly right. The people like the first commenter, hell, even the second commentator are the bottom of the barrel for the internet. I can’t imagine what their lives must be like outside of the internet, but if I had to guess I would guess not pretty. Why else would they have to unleash their vitriol in such a way?
“So, if I understand you correctly, only our God-mandated betters, endowed with money (which is the only measure of worth) should have access to an audience”
Are you serious?
Do you even expect a response from Brett?
It’s snide comments and a blatant disregard for respect everywhere that bring us to where we are now.
@Brett:
1. Your article is completely correct.
2. However, it both states the blindingly obvious and comes across as a little bit whiny. Did you have a traumatic experience that drove you to write this article, or something like that?
3. Also, what else did you expect? It’s the internet, that’s the way it is. Are you truly ‘offended’ by Random J. Net-Loser announcing that he is going to play with his penis, or by a preteen Halo player telling you that you’re gay? If you are bothered by it, you have very thin skin. If you aren’t, then why bother typing a 416-word article about it?
4. Incidentally, who is this ‘we’, who apparently ‘hate the internet’? Do you mean the ANUSian grouping of ’smart kids’, nihilists, nazis and metalheads? If so, why do you keep using the internet?
@Chris:
>You’re exactly right… I can’t imagine what their lives must be like
>outside of the internet, but if I had to guess I would guess not pretty…
Sticking your nose up Brett’s arse won’t make his wit or intelligence rub off on you; just his faeces.
It appears your point was well made.
Hilarious how Brett set this up so commentors like Tom and Kazimir make his point – well done.