Comments on Comments

 

Luckily the 2.5 readers of this blog only post nice/positive comments, which I always appreciate, so please feel free to comment away. 

However, I feel like mainstream online media is becoming way too "comment friendly," and 99 percent of the people commenting are complete morons who can't spell or speak proper English and have never created anything in their pathetic little lives. They're angry, festering peons who have nothing better to do than post their negative comments about people's books or music or politics, whatever. And most of these idiots have no idea what they are talking about - then manage to get in fights with each other via comment sections. Its a waste of everyone's time and is starting to piss me off. I try not to read any of them but sometimes its impossible to avoid seeing a few misspelled sentences of hatred when reading the news online. Do the news organizations care what any of these people have to say? No. I think the comment option should be taken off of these sites, unless we are creating a social experiment to show the world how horrendous the public school system is in America - Our citizens can barely read and write the English language, but durn tootin they're angry and dumb! 

This also goes for sports radio shows where bumblefuck, lazy chunkers who've never played a sport in their lives call in to the show to complain or offer their specific play-by-play coaching advice on various local sports teams. Jeff had this on in the car one day last summer and I almost lost it and ejected myself out the convertible roof. In general I can't stand talk radio of any kind and especially hate morning radio DJs who think they are funny and/or interesting. (Newsflash: You're Not) I'd much rather listen to music in the car (sorry NPR), but especially when the people talking are Average Joes sitting at home on their couch eating potato chips and yelling at the TV. Attention Fatassed Sports Fans of America: Nobody Cares How You Would Have Coached A Player To Make That Last Play.

Our whole society is getting ridiculously overloaded with everyone constantly Tweeting and Facebooking and Blogging (as I am doing right now, I'm very much aware) and Commenting with all their thoughts and at some point it's just too much to deal with. I don't know where we'll go from here - little pods on the sides of our heads that broadcast every thought and idea like a news ticker in Times Square? Perhaps. I'm sure Steve Jobs is on it, sadly.