1 post tagged “glenn reynolds”

Over the course of 48 hours, I have learned that those who write blogs are not only OFTEN self-absorbed egomaniacs obsessed with their differences from the mainstream media (when really they are now a crucial part OF the mainstream media), but many of them also seem to be ignorant and some of them are even evil.

So this will be my last post on my blog, composed just six days after my first-ever blog post was made.

You see, I really know very little about the blogosphere compared to many of you.

This shitstorm happened simply because somehow instapundit found me.  I posted the blog because I was mad that a political forum in an extraordinarily diverse country was the exact opposite of diverse.  I was mad after the political forum ended because the five bloggers did NOT address my concerns in any way besides telling me "to get my own blog" because it's free and to find a blogging community (like the "fashion" blogs) where my views are represented.

Jerome Armstrong even agreed with me at the forum that the political blogosphere is NOT diverse, but then encouraged me to find another segment of the blogosphere where my views resonated.  But, um, I'm not interested in the "fashion" blogosphere, as he mentioned, I was interested in the POLITICAL blogosphere.  And I wasn't just talking about ME, I was talking about the minorities and the economically disadvantaged who are NOT represented in the mainstream political blogosphere, and was simply told by Scott Johnson that starting a blog is free so anyone can do it (I won't go into leisure time inequalities, educational inequalities, etc. etc. here).

I still think that solving the homogeneousness of the blogosphere is NOT as simple as telling a girl at a forum to "get a blog."  I don't NEED a blog.  What I'm looking for is diversity in the mainstream blogosphere.  It seems that most of the popular political blogs in the country are uniformly written by richwhiteeducatedmen and richwhiteeducatedwomen.  What I'm looking for is for bloggers to stop being so self-absorbed and instead realize and admit the truth:  Yes, we are a part of the mainstream media, so let's get some diverse viewpoints in here where they can be heard loud and clear.

I'm pretty astounded that so many people joined Vox simply so that they could attack me and my viewpoint (I've deleted the majority of the comments as they are ignorant personal attacks on me that have NOTHING to do with what I wrote).  At first it was empowering to think that so many people were reading my words.  But then I realized that instapundit readers...well, instapundit readers seem to be, by and large, ignorant, CRAZY CONSERVATIVE jackasses.  So that's not very empowering.

So bye bye blogosphere.  I'm quite certain you will mourn my loss for centuries. (Oh, that sentence was sarcastic, btw.)