However, about 10 posts down we get to some really interesting comments.
"Isn't this evolution which the left support? [sic]"And yes, I just [sic]'d that entire quote. The conversation quickly turned sour with some relatively intelligent individuals explaining the "finer points of evolution". And by finer points of evolution, I mean evolution. An apt analogy was put forth demonstrating that a swift and drastic enough change to environment could potentially negate the slow adaptations through naturally selected mutation on which the theory of evolution is founded.
"We'll see how fast you can adapt to a nuclear warhead destroying your country."To which was replied,
"I will GUARANTEE you this: if me and my family survive the first wave of attacks, damn-straight I can survive. You can take that one to the bank. To quote Bocephus, 'I got a shotgun, a rifle and a 4 wheel drive, and a Country Boy can survive.'"This post stems from the incredulous rage I felt against this post. Do you really not fucking know what a nuke does? Equate that to someone from Nagasaki after the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. I promise, a shotgun, a rifle and a 4 wheel drive would not help anyone, let alone a country boy (capitalized? please...), survive.
And I can actually see this redneck sitting at his house, yelling at the TV, with a mustard-stained wifebeater and a half-crushed half-finished beer flailing around attached to his flab-flapping arm as he emphatically makes no point to the magic box. And in my realization, the television becomes a computer. And he is one-handed-hunt-and-pecking his way through the digg post with his sausage fingers on an old Gateway he got free from the local highschool when they were upgrading.
This is a historically-proven natural regression of demonstrated intelligence through digg comments. I've only been left to believe that digg has gained the sort of popularity that has effectively caused it to become mentally retarded, as the collective intelligence of America has proven itself to be.
Since this is a personal opinion, I'm free to put out a theory that I've long-touted:
Groups function through their simplest shared elements.
The larger the group, the more simple the element must be. The example that I always like to think of is the "mob rage". Mobs are formed ad hoc and therefore there is no predetermined cause under which to unite.
How else would this story, featuring images which look as though they were created in photoshop in 1997 make the front page? It's because your mother and father and son and daughter are now contributing to digg. They are digging, and reading, and pushing stories to the tope. What we are slowly seeing are the basest commonalities filtering to the top.
So in essence, the takeaway of this generally patronizing rant is to please think before you post, think before you talk. Most of the time you shouldn't talk at all.
