I know it has been a long time since I have posted something, which really sucks. I mainly blame being employed for that. I am pretty sure I would be much more active in my blogging and social media endeavors if I wasn't racking up hours and XP in the game of life. You will be happy to know that I am now a level 40 web development manager, and have learned a lot of code spells. If you don't know what I am talking about you should probably play an RPG, or at least read about what they are. I don't actually play them, nor have I ever, but I have just heard people reference them enough that I feel I can accurately reference their gameplay style as needed. Anyway enough of that nonsense. Let's get to the real topic at hand.
I am a huge advocate of UYB, or Using Your Brain. I know it can sometimes be difficult to boot it up after not using it for so long (I am talking to you youth of America), but it is very important that we use the thing that separates us from the Mexicans...I mean animals. (I really don't have anything against Mexicans. I use jokes like that mostly for shock value to get a cheap laugh.) Today I am mostly going to focus on the underlying cause of our awareness of stupidity these past few years.
It isn't new news that, generally, people seem a lot dumber than they use to be, but why is that? You would think with the huge leaps in technology that have brought us into the information age that we would have more intelligent youth solving the mysteries of science. Well we do have a lot of these, but they are still not as abundant as the rest of the gauged ear, completely tattooed, drug addicted, and sexually promiscuous youth that seem to be littering the earth. Not to say that people that have gauges or tattoos or whatever are unintelligent, but generally all of the morons I see all over social media making complete idiots of themselves have all of these qualities. They also seem to be very outspoken about everything and throw their every thought on the internet without regard to consequence. This brings me to my point.
The reason that we are noticing so many stupid people and an influx of intelligent people is because people are sharing their every thought on the internet. The beauty of having a brain is that you can have thoughts and not share them. Unfortunately, as of late people seem to have forgotten that they have that ability. So we see every thought whether smart, witty, stupid, informative, or useless. It will be surprising to all of you to know that I only post about 50% of the things that I had originally intended to post. That isn't even counting things that I had dismissed from my mind before even picking up my phone or opening my laptop to share it. For the most part I have probably put on average of 5 - 10 minutes of thought into everything that I have shared on the internet. Even then not everything has been a comedic gem or a thought provoking anecdote, and that is with me putting a lot of time and thought into what I share. I really doubt there are a lot of people that do what I do with their social media and sharing practices. So we are left with a lot of people posting nearly their every thought, and now we can see with clarity how stupid they really are.
I feel that people that people who spend most of their time talking spend very little time thinking, and that applies to social media as well. Put some thought into everything you put on the internet. You will be less likely to read through your posts in the years to come and wonder how you were ever so stupid to have posted things like these.
I believe that you all have the ability to stop the over sharing, and become a little bit better at filtering the useless garbage that you discard onto the internet for innocent passers by to read. Make me proud.
Thanks for reading.
