When I was a kid, the highest future standard anyone my age could be held to by our parents, grandparents, teachers or the mumbling Filipino guy in my neighborhood who handed out cigarettes to 10-year-olds and only didn’t have to register as a sex offender because they didn’t do that back then was that of … Continue reading The Myth of a Successful Person
You think that’s unfair? Just type ‘wtf’ into the Internet right now. Or the word ‘funny.’ I guarantee you the results will come back: bear falls on chainsaw, cuts itself in half lengthwise. Pregnant woman slips in the gore. People on YouTube write: 'this should be another book in the bible.'
And it took a little while, but with its unrestricted, minimum standard of acceptance, unthreatening appeal and perfect price to join, the internet—along with millions of hungry, hive-minded social media users—somehow conceived and then gestated this comparatively talentless yet hugely popular 21st century monstrosity called the Internet Celebrity...
Honestly, it is baffling sometimes to see the abandon with which so many humans cross roads and jockey street gutters in and around Eugene, Oregon, where I live...