Why You Can Speak

I hate Blogs.


More correctly, I hate the fact that anyone can blog.


Still more correctly, I hate the fact that Blogs mean that anyone who has a computer, has a voice. Because you don't all deserve one.


Let's face it, folks, democracy is a sick and twisted joke played on the few by the many. Some of us are rational, sensible, intelligent people - we deserve a vote. Others of us (for convenience, let's refer to them as 'the majority') are insufferable morons who consume valuable oxygen and inconvenience me (and by extension, you) with their existence. They do not deserve a vote.


OK, back to the world of reason and equality, while I hate it, I'm glad that every idiot who knows that keyboards aren't for licking has a say in the world. Really glad. Because you know what's worse than democracy? Everything else. The laudable goals of communism fail under the pressures of human greed. The notion of a protective aristocracy crumbles due to its own complete corruption. Theocratic government will always fail because there are always unbelievers.


Yes, Democracy drags me (read: us - I'm giving you a lot of cred as one of the few people who reads this blog... don't disappoint me) down, but it also raises so many people up... It gives them a chance - in Australia, it thrusts a chance upon you - to make a difference, because just one vote can win an election or overturn a referendum. All of us should have this chance - even people with stupid Blogs.


The point to which I have long-windedly come, is that the internet is full of opinions, many of which are stupid. It takes moments and only a little initiative to start a Blog (see http://mrlsucks.blogspot.com/ for evidence) but it takes a great deal more than that to make your blog good (see http://chasinggeese.blogspot.com/ for more evidence).


I have decided to post more regularly and to try and make this a good blog. Too many of my previous entries have been long, long, long. You can find me on Twitter if you want short, short, short, but I think I'm going to go for something less D&M and more upbeat this year. Let me know what you think, tell your friends, etc.


New God time:

Doctor Glen Barry, God of the Voice

Who??

Doctor Glen Barry invented the political blog. His site, Climateark, is still running here after starting in 1993 - a respectable 16 years old. He not only started a political movement by promoting ecology, e started the ball rolling for YOU. He popularised and validated a new text type - probably now used almost as much as cinema for passing messages to people. If only someone had done the same for comic books in the 30's, we wouldn't be fighting for recognition and validity now. Bottom line, this guy made a significant contribution to the notion that it is possible for people everywhere to say what they like, irrespective of what their government thinks. For this, we connonise him here today.