Domestic Psychology

not the real world

// February 13th, 2008 // blogging, people

The people on blogs and social networking sites are diverse and it “feels” like an accurate representation of the salad bowl that is America with samplings of the rest of the world. It’s not. Bloggers in jammies are as frightening as naked people dancing around a bonfire. While we read and comment on intimate details of politicians’ lives, words and actions, most people only know what they see on the television. Even then, they only pay attention to the very few phrases that they hear most often. Average Americans just don’t care about what’s happening outside of their own lives enough to look beyond the surface. If someone at church says something about a candidate, it is accepted as fact. It’s not just politics that divides bloggers from the rest of the world. Knowledge of other cultures and people beyond what “they” say is absent from most people’s lives. What we recognize immediately as urban legends are accepted realities outside of the web community. Try offering up a new piece of information or any evidence to the contrary and you will be treated like a midwife in Salem. Bloggers are just witches who are unfairly protected by the liberal establishment. The ten commandments need to be written into the Constitution and we will all be safe when the government can control protect us. Ignorance is righteous and knowledge is the apple being offered by a serpent.