Warning signs of Approval Addict Blogging
(1) You flinch in discomfort when another blogger uses words you never even wanted to know existed, like “jejune”, “asshat”, “screwfish”, or “syncope”.
(2) You feel it is your duty to self-righteously scold, warn, or betray a long-time blogging friend, just because they grew some balls and started blogging with aggressive authenticity.
(3) You worry that if everybody starts to like and be influenced by the sharp-tongued, filthy-faced blog twerp, you will soon have a hundred kinds of hell in your comment moderation bin.
(4) Your mother and grandmother, though not your old Aunt Hazel, who curses like Martin Luther in a German pub, told you not to use “such awful language.”
(5) You ignore the fact that the people who command us to be “polite”, “mature”, “professional” are also the ones raiding pension funds, offshore outsourcing, downsizing the IT department, clueless about any kind of self-defense fighting, in love with the status quo, are fearful of change, despise discomfort, flee in a cowardly manner from all conflict and confrontation, and are generally idiots who must not babysit little Sasha tonight.
(6) You feel like your whole entire world has turned upside down just because you cannot control the behavior and tone of another blogger.
(7) Your superego is screaming that all his posts are “not nice” and seem strident, harsh, and domineering…like, er, your own prissy superego surrogates for the external code of mommy and daddy, those perfect cherubs.
(8) You decide to put your foot down and warn the wayward blogger that if he cares nothing for the Approval of All Other People at All Times, you do, and so do many others, so you can no longer communicate with, nor visit the blog of, the wayward blogger.
(9) You sit in your own blog, pleased with your holy shrine to good taste and decorum…and fall asleeep…like all your readers are doing.
but sleeping is soooooo nice
carrie said this on February 24, 2006 12:33 am