Is silence stupid or golden?

This is a dilemma quickly dismissed by - to quote the previous post- our best toy from these days. Silence is horrible for the digital medium, no comments, no blogs, vlogs and other daily displays of show-off-ism, no posts, no feedback... the lack of passivity is a necessary act in the commercial go around of modern society. "Express yourself" is a slogan pushed to its limits, emptied of almost all its valuable content.

The silents therefore are maybe poor (aka have no access to the worldwide communication), maybe stupid (have nothing to say), maybe just feeling alien to this huge huge world full of people who are crowding the wires or the wireless in order to express themselves.

Looking for meaning in a culture which has broken this notion into pieces... tough. No one personality, no one talent, instead the power of the many "heterogeneous" voices. The meaning is pumped up, lobbied for, publicized, until we're not sure anymore if it means something important or not.Almost everything one may think of has been thought or done, previously or simultaneously, in another part of the world. Big sigh.

Yet this is parallel to life. In nature no flower is identical to another. A second can turn worlds around. The false meaningless, the false noise, the been there-done it all is just an illusion. I may chat with someone from the other side of the globe, yet I do not feel how he or she is, what life that person has, I cannot smell the air from out there... this would be the open paradox.

The sad and closed paradox is when, having a person face to face, you feel the need to close the chat window. When all you get are just clichés, phrases copied, false ideas, wishful thinking. When the air of the encounter wreaks of... digital.

Silence is sometimes needed to protect us from the truth that so many people are astray and will not even admit it. From hearing the same old stuff, from seeing the deceit as clear as an oil painting, standing on the wall between us.

Then we talk, just because it has been repeated to us that is is socially polite and normal and healthy to talk, chatter, gossip, fill the gap, blabber, express ourselves, create, debate, stand up for some idea, make others feel comfortable, seem adequate and intelligent...

MLM and Internet

Remember those so-much-hated encounters with MLM?

And, yea, I started with a rhetorical question, a method used at their meetings. If your ears weren't already on shutdown after the first pompous obnoxious (and so on) phrase they declaimed, you could hear their basic principle: friends are an asset, and the better you "milk" them of money and/or of other contacts in order to sell the products and make yourself a fortune, the best.


Now, mind that, either you were told or you noticed by yourself (as a MLM shit-head, in an absurd hypothesis) that not all friends were valuable, only those with popularity or money, or just contacts that could be dragged into the meetings.


Now, much hated ideas somehow work their way into popular mentality in an insidious way, and I think MLM friend-usage is to be found on the net in those situations were people know each other.

Anonymity brings a lot of swearing, but also sincerity. No use to "earn points" by liking an unlikable item, if you are anonymous.
But if we know each other, what better way to have an unspoken you say well of mine-I say well of yours bargain than liking and praising here and there?

And now even more and more sites make registering necessary just in order to comment, so bye-bye relative anonymity. Plus it takes longer to write down a reaction that just sprung to mind, so bye-bye spontaneity. I used to like the nonsense of anonymous comments, even the injurious ones. If I didn't want to read them, I would skip them, but it gave a freedom feeling to see them all there. Now, it's a "register and login " world...bleah.

Of course, next on the list are the socialization sites, a mix-up of face to face social conventions and Internet, with a strong MLM feeling...I'll just leave it at that.

The blogs are so and so, as long as the comments have in theory the nickname signature. But usually people use clues to let the blogger know who said what, they want the credit for their comments as they are rarely derogative.
Blogs are like small clubs, if you are a complete stranger, what are the chances to just end up in one? Usually you use directions to find them, so the posters-readers are a small group who can of course bring other contacts, but who know each other...relatively.

Some of the comments (especially when we are talking pictures) are even mimicking the street random meetings with true or not-so-true friends, in which there was a lot of kissing in the air, lots of interjections, of false/not false admiration, and plenty of never realized plans and invitations: "Oh, you look beautiful! Really amazing! What a nice dress/ring/costume..We must see each other again! Come by my house sometimes!...Honey, sooo glad seeing you! O-ha-ha-ha"

So on, so forth. I got bored and my being pissed off (of course something triggered this) is wearing off.

So, I might self-comment in a derogatory manner...