The internet is full of people who are terrible at life, who aren’t good at anything, and who are simply terrible at life, and...
The internet is full of people who are terrible at life, who aren’t good at anything, and who are simply terrible at life, and it’s hard not to feel like this is a bunch of people who are exploring some unknown yet wonderful frontier.
it’s true!
What’s that? I am exploring some unknown yet wonderful frontier? Nice!
Let me clarify something just in case it’s not clear – I’m not just talking about people who clearly want to be awesome and not get bad grades or fuck up their lives. I’m talking about people who can’t apparently figure anything out about the outside world.
You know, in your everyday, humdrum life, you have decisions to make, things you have to do, and other people will sometimes make bad choices, sometimes fuck things up for others, and sometimes put you in harmful situations. But you don’t always have to make those decisions yourself – a group of people, maybe even 5 or 10, come along and point out precisely “what to do” and then cheerfully volunteer to guide you. “Don’t fuck up,” they say.
They aren’t good at life, though, it seems.
(Of course there are plenty of people out there who have done just fine in life who are terrible at life too, and have no idea it’s happening.)
The rest of them have done terrible in life but are really good at life too, and even if some do, they generally have no idea it’s happening.
If you’re not being violent or unkind, I think you people are nailing this!
I’m just trying to figure out how you fit this into the “awesome frontier” metaphor? I’d say that if I were to describe the internet in that metaphor, it would involve people being terrible at life in ways that are clearly unpleasant and troubling. But I don’t think that the metaphor is that clear.