Well, seeing all the crap that seems to pervading the web, I figured it was time to cast my thoughts into the void. Against my general instinct to preserve anonymity, I'll attempt to preserve my sanity against the inane dialog social communities seem most adept at regurgitating for public consumption. I'm not doing this for anyone other than myself. Some of the posts I see out there are so asinine that they require comment; even if it happens in my own unobtrusive corner of the web.

There's a gold rush for your celluloid 15 minutes of fame and this whole Web 2.0 thing just seems to have capitalized on everyone's insecurity of being forgotten or overlooked. Is it me, or is a lot of the Web 2.0 superstars simple vehicles for the insecure to relive the popularity they were denied in high school? It's ironic that what's labeled technological progress facilitates retrograde social change. The Facebooks and YouTubes of the era of “innovation” feed off the almost pathological need of people for some form of acknowledgment; the need to stand out from the rest of the crowd.

In return, we achieve our identity only through consumption. Consumption in turn leads to cultural intolerance by heightening our ability to differentiate the 'haves' and 'have nots' by what they own and the dissimilarity of their possessions to our own.

“The singularity of fact; the multiplicity of truth.”

As I scrutinize the world around me, this simple dictum reveals the beauty that has been obscured by superficiality of our existence. What happened to skepticism as a path to truth? What happened to beauty? Question the world around you and discover the deeper truth. A truth that is not manufactured, a truth that is informed by context.