Blog Mania

Of late I have been following a lot of interesting blogs and twitter pages. It is rather remarkable with the availability of this easy publishing tool so much creativity is being shared. All those inhumanly funny people, who could not afford to vent out their jokes in public for fear of bodily harm can now air it openly without fear of immediate physical response. Though the improvement in transportation technology and emergent technologies would make sure that the time delay in response would be bridged. Especially if the protagonists are just across the building or office.

However the fact remains, a lot more humorists now have an avenue. Then there are the intellectuals who have found a platform to articulate their wisdom without fear of being chastised by the less cerebral of their more muscular peers. Here they can truly live up to their mental image of intellectual wisdom and bask in satisfaction of finally doing a Galileo without the spiked drink after effects.

Then of course there are the self styled educators, who finally gain a platform to spread their knowledge to the invisible and ignorant masses. These are people whose knowledge and ideas are forced to be suppressed by occasional outbursts from the ignorants like, "Says Who?" "Do you have a degree to prove your credentials?". In an age where the letters on a parchment is the arbiter of intelligence and social worth of a person, an engineer is not supposed to speak about history, an undergraduate is not supposed to speak authoritatively on any subject to a graduate, let alone or a post graduate. However in the rarified reaches of internet, where degrees are mere pixels, unproven, unverified, it is a true battle of knowledge, the way it should have been in the real life.

Now this post is not a glorious tribute to these literati. It is to ask another simple question: What the hell are non humorous, non articulative, non intellectual masses like Yours Only supposed to do? Should people with inconsequential literary capabilities be permitted to publish? Should mediocrity exist alongside excellence?

I think yes. After all how would you recognize the worth of a diamond if it is not surrounded by tons of dirt? If it lies in a heap of diamonds, it is just yet another sparkling stone.

Coming back to blogging and tweeting, this is another aspect I have noted, retweets and "following". While there are people like me who acknowledge the incurable deficiency of the humor bone and try to live with this misfortune, there are those who wildly want to be acknowledged as humorous.

Of course they spare us the horrors of having to read works of their exalted cranium, but they lose no chance of retweeting contents of the most popular blogs or twitter pages. Just like the early days of orkut when a person's e-peen was measured by the number of "friends" a person has and a person's "coolness" is measured by the communities they are part of, now it is the blogs they follow, and the tweets they retweet.

Anyway now I dont seem to find any more nonsense to write about, so might as well post it.