I am a proud polit-blogger, listen to me …
Thanks to blogging finally everybody has it’s little media outlet. Media democracy at least - so it seems. Time to celebrate? Nope. Overall you just find more of the same instead of a greater variety of ideas, reflections and inspiration.
Tribalism
First and all people love to form tribes and hordes - the liberal bloggers, the conservative bloggers, the gay bloggers, the farting bloggers. Stickers and links are the new medals and flags of the blogosphere.
Conformists
It is amazing how conform each tribe reports and argues it’s cases. It’s like the Reagan’s trickle down economy in the blogosphere. The A-list bloggers and media outlets fill the pot and it all trickles down to the lower sites. With each report, trackback and linkback the actual facts get more and more distorted - and more and more blabla added.
Hate
Even more amazing is the spiral of hate and anger that seems to drive the battle. Comments and actual postings are often full of profanity as well as insults and personal attacks. I can understand this confronting political figures - which one can’t touch. But how about some respect for your fellow blogger? So much about civilized discussions and cooperation.
Aimless
Polit bloggers are way to willing to continue dogmas and phrases. Instead of controlling and checking political agendas and programs they loose track of their own interests as voters. Instead of a war of ideas any society should concentrate on finding the best solution. So what happened to common sense and consensus?
Nothing is left alive …
Overall polit bloggers remind me of several different ant armies - aggressively devouring anything in their way down to the bones. Very short sighted, very selfish, very hysterical. Therefore they fulfil a role in the political ecosystem: to ‘check’ for errors and take away the garbage.
But so far I have only seen a few blogs of ‘enlightenment’, who add something to the process apart from word wrestling and dogmatic masturbation.
Image: The great Eadweard Muybridge