…Or just revealing what lay beneath.
This is something I have pondered on many a time. Mostly after seeing egregious comments on internet message boards.
The level of disrespect and pent up anger than one can detect online at times is frightening. Why? I ask because, what if it is not the internet that brings this out of people. What if most people really are that way inside but do not exhibit it because of the correcting nature of the public eye. (and of course the knowledge that some people in society don’t hesitate to bust people in the mouth, unlike the Internet Warrior)
So what, you say. Does not this point to an enormous conflagration of negative energies building up in society, I return.
I make my home on the internet. Xbox Live, Message Boards, Forums, Articles, Comments. And let me tell you there are some bad things afoot. Youtube comments for example can make a person just lose all hope for humanity.
I have been in Xbox lobbies where it was known that a Woman was also playing. The level of just chauvinist, or creepy behavior is astounding. And then it seemed like some of the teens had an agenda to just rage against her. Why? Why so much pent up aggression.
And well internet racism is just…. Well you know what they say “ An N word a day keeps the doctor away”
These things are perpetrated in the great cloak of internet anonymity sure but that they exist at all is distressing.
ON THE OTHER HAND.
Perhaps my worries are baseless. My opposite theory is that perhaps the cloak of anonymity has an amplifying effect.
Yes.
Perhaps the trend of outrageous behavior is nothing more than the “Shock Jock” syndrome. A subconscious need to relieve the pressures of always having to conform. To always be locked within the bounds of polite society.
All the times you had to hold your tongue, or perhaps even though, I wish I could say this but I cant I am a coward.
The cloak of anonymity gives a way to mindlessly rage and act a fool. A desperate cry to say, “ I am a person, please acknowledge me!”
And yet, if you have ever seen lets say….. Comments on an Article about President Obama…. You see a whole other phenomena. I plan to go into this in a latter blog post. Willful Habitation of Deceptive Realities.
