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Thursday, April 29, 2004Non-baseball: Why do we hate ourselves?Note: This post originally appeared on my political blog. I have archived it here for posterity's sake. It was almost a month between posts here. I've considered changing the name of it to "Neo-Conservative Occasional"- it seems fitting. In that period my average visitors per day went from a high of about twenty (That's right- twenty a day! That's what I call reaching the masses!), down to about three. I know I claimed that this blog was the equivalent of me screaming at a brick wall, but still, that's emasculating. I have to get back on track, and that means writing everyday. That's going to mean shorter posts (like yesterday's little blurb about the UN), which will hopefully make this a more interesting blog for you to read, and for me to write. Anyway, on to today's post. One thing I've noticed about political blogs is that for the most part the readership seems to be a fairly even slice of the public, representing all sides of the political spectrum, no matter the ideology of the blog. If you want proof just look at the comments left by readers on most blogs. Many of them start with phrases like "Are you kidding!?" or "What are you, an idiot?" This reinforces my theory: Germans love David Hasseloff. Wait... that's Norm McDonald's theory. My theory is that people love to be pissed off. Sure, we all love to have our opinions re-affirmed (that's the beauty of FOX News), but we also love to get inside the head of the enemy, fly into a rage, and leave snippy comments. It's what makes me read articles like this one. You know from the headline that it's going to piss you off, but you open it anyway. You get angrier and angrier paragraph-by-paragraph. You get red in the face and steam starts shooting from your ears. Then you make your hastily worded rebuttal, knowing that you're superior to the author in every conceivable way. What else would make someone accuse someone else of being an anti-Semite because they happen to think Barbara Boxer is an idiot? You saw the title of the blog. Neo-Conservative Daily- it's right there in plain English! And yet you came, you saw, and you posted. I certainly don't like being called an anti-Semite (and I'm pretty sure Barbara Boxer isn't even Jewish), but what the hell, I need the readers. Come back tomorrow and I'll have something that will really make your blood boil! |
