posted on Jul, 15 2011 @ 04:55 PM
My rant stems from far too many posts that seem to be following a pattern lately. I call it the Lazy Mind. There seems to be a growing population of
these Lazy Mind people on ATS. Post after post, there are knee-jerk reaction comments made about a posted story snippet that are in stark
contridiction to the overall story itself.
The trigger for my rant came after the recent post about a
US Soldier Arrested for
explosives at an airport. I challenge you to read the story and then read the comments. It infuriates me to see people start rattling off as if to
quote facts that are completely the opposite of the story. The comments are triggered by the headline and quoted text, taken completely out of
context and then regurgitated as conclusion.
ATS is about investigation, truth seeking, conspiracy, theory, sharing and debate. However, it seems lately that ATS is becoming more about Pop
Culture headlines with uninformed reactionary commentary and useless vulgarity. Where have the days gone when intelligent debate on thoroughly
researched topics was the norm?
ATS used to look beyond the veil to see what was going on behind the scenes. Now, all we see are headlines ripped from the mass media distraction
crews and Johnny One Note blogs. Often times they are called out, but not before a lethal injection of the Lazy Mind is given.
Another thing that particularly bothers me about this is that these people are representing themselves in the real world as knowledgable. These same
people who come here only to be the first to comment on a topic, rather than take time to read more than once source on the topic before posting
something intelligent are spawning. It seems that there is some race to be on page 1 so that your comments wont disappear on page 3.
The sayings "think twice, speak once" and "better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt" both apply not only
to addressing people vocally, but also in the digital world. People sometimes forget, but what happens on the net, stays on the net forever.