闭门造车
I don't like 9gag. I don't know whether they come up with materials themselves or not, but to me, it is apparent that they're merely "reposting" whatever the users find interesting, without giving the original creator due credit.
I can't deny the appeal of 9gag though, because the materials reposted are normally the ones that are funnier/more interesting than what the origin normally creates, so you don't have to surf through dozens of posts from a certain site just to get to a post that tickles you.
Besides that, 9gag sucks. I hope it's just a passing phase, like fashion, because there are people who really live the 9gag mantra, stating/spewing 9gag stuff just to substantiate whatever it is that they wish to substantiate, and it is really distressing to see that people view a website so importantly that they subscribe to whatever doctrine (or lack thereof) it is that 9gag advocates.
Females on 9gag are worse. OK, specifically, females who post on 9gag are worse. I was bored and I clicked on one of the posts, and the comments led me to the Facebook profile of a girl. Her latest update was:
9gag dudes need to stop adding me :|
Hello, you're a female. Your existence reeks of trouble. You, posting so actively on 9gag will only attract attention. It certainly did attract mine, even though I don't visit 9gag often. If you find it troublesome that random guys are adding you, you can...
1) Change your profile picture
2) Make your profile more private
3) Change your account name to something stupid like..Bimbolicious or something equally brainless-sounding.
Or you can just keep your comments to yourself because posting them on a forum doesn't help air your views--no one cares.
If you don't like lightning striking you, don't be the tallest object. If you don't like attention, stop fucking attracting it then bitch about it.
I think I just have a problem with her complaining about people adding her. The unwritten, unexpressed underlying sentiment she is trying to tell her friends is "I'm hot on 9gag", thereby cementing her status a Bitch.
So what if you look good? You have shit for brains. I'm not going to add you just to be part of your statistics of "9gag dudes" because I'm not even a 9gag dude in the first place. People need to stop being so self-absorbed; no one has the exclusive rights to unique.
I sometimes have to remind myself of this, too. I try my best to learn and know as little as possible, because I want to find things out, because I want to create things myself. I try my best to be as original as possible, but sometimes I create what had already been created.
In the past, my chess moves were distinctly mine--I don't go follow so-and-so's style. Now, my different facial expressions were not inspired by Internet memes or whatever fuckshit, my actions aren't copied from television characters, blah blah.
There's a Chinese proverb for this: 闭门造车. I guess I'm guilty of it, as guilty as I am of target fixation. I will bash through anything that gets in my way, including the thing I'm fixated on itself. I want to be so many things, and an unstoppable force is one of them.
There was some news about someone who is blind, deaf, and mute. Then everyone started talking about Hellen Keller and how impossible it is for her to become educated, because let's face it, it's hard to do anything when you've lost 2 of your more important senses. It's like being unlucky^2.
But then again, what are the rest of us doing? We have our sense intact, yes, but we aren't fully utilizing what we have. Do we take in the beautiful moments? How many of us rush through life without appreciating all there is to appreciate around us? Which kinda sucks, because I almost exclusively utilize my sight only for appreciation of porn, and my hearing only for the moans/screams of the women dying for my porn (think snuff films).
I suck.
-- 12/04/2011 04:08:00 PM
