i find information can be influential, so i try to peddle information rather than opinions. or rather you could say i push my opinions through the information i present.

IIRC some survey showed that the average blog has one reader.

>>> the choice between McDonalds and Burger King is worthy of philosophical treatise and long discussion.

Sooner or later this is going to happen, and you know it.

>>6132936

THIS

idothisblox

>>6132956

Do you have a problem with that tinfoil?

Do you dare question the undisputed peer-reviewed fact that the choice between these two nutrition chains is the great question of our times?

What are you trying to imply, here?

That blogging is retarded? Well no shit detective dumbfuck, way to tell us something everyone knew years ago. How about some NEWS.

Lol'd at "democracy gives people the illusion of choice."

>>6133037

>"democracy gives people the illusion of choice."

Implying it doesn't.

Look mister great 4chanite know-it-all contrarian. How about if you want news you go and create some instead of complaining to the internet for not amusing you properly.

In other words, go fuck yourself.

Someone's been reading some Noam Chomsky I see.

>>6133068

I don't even know who that is.

Also, fuck yourself.

Weev said that? That's a clearly articulated and insightful point

>>6133101

Ahh, there we go.

You deserve it:

http://www.corrupt.org/act/interviews/weev

I hate bloggers. Just, people who identify themselves as "bloggers." I don't mind reading blogs of people who do other stuff, like a webcomic artist's blog or a video game dev log. I just hate people who blog for the sake of it. They're the most self-important, banal cunts to ever walk this earth.

>>6133068

Prolly. I got sick of chomsky as soon as I read more into biology and realized that his "universal grammar" bullshit was outdated bullshit and the equivalent of a telegraph operator claiming that iPhones couldn't exist, since it would be impossible to produce enough wire to connect every phone together.

>>6133064
>bawwww my ass pains me

Look, everyone knows blogging is retarded and that bloggers do it to either try and garner e-fame or put their usually banal opinions somewhere because no one else will listen. I'm sorry, but this isn't a revelation to people like you were hoping. Not to mention you didn't actually write that or figure that out yourself, you just copy+pasted it here hoping that it would generate some kind of intellectual (lol! no boogerbrains alloweded!) discussion.

Since you seem intent on bumping your own thread until you get bored and leave and it 404's, why don't you explain what you (or whoevers teat you're sucking) mean by "Democracy gives people the illusion of choice" instead of giving a vague sarcastic remark? Go ahead, I'll wait.

>I just got trolled

>>6133101
I dunno if insightful is the word I would use.

Insightful implies that it's presenting some sort of new material, whereas the concept of democracy's illusion of self-control over the government is a self-evident conclusion of the principles of a democracy.

>>6133125

Kids these days, seriously. You have any idea what the concept of universal grammar actually did for Psychology? The notion that learning was an interaction between stimuli and internal states paved the way for the cognitive revolution, replacing the behaviourist paradigm. Credit where it's fucking due.

Also I personally know an American psych researcher that argues that linguistic cognitive states are akin to Bayesian learning algorithms - Chomsky is still winning atm.

McDonalds is way better than Burger King. Chicken nuggets FTW.

>>6133228

Let me elaborate; I don't disregard the contributions it's made, but the man is still claiming that the origin of language is all unexplainable magic and pixie dust to this day.

The fries at BK are much better. The Original Chicken Sandwich beats out any chicken from MickeyDs.

>>6133169
where did OP claim this was anything new? dumbfucks like you always try to shit up every non-camwhore/relationshit thread with 'derp i already knew this' bullshit. piss off and go bawww about the girl who wont call you.

I got a job writing for a national newspaper from blogging, maybe 700-800 words at approx 50c-$1 USD/word every two-three months.

Feels good, man.

>>6132852
They have choice, but only choices that will benifit the society.
That's where freedom ends.

I hate these bonds of societies, but i am too weak to break through these bonds :(

But it is not a news, that POWER is still dictating almost everything.

But the broad majority of working citizen wouldn't care anyways about those illusions.

>>6133396
That's why it is so shit here.

Every attentionwhore/relationshitread/Okcupid/MSN/AIM thread gets over 9000 replies.

I can't believe that Moot still doesn't shut down this board or ATLEAST RENAME it.

ITT: Trolls, and people who spend too much time on the internet

>>6133396
Guess what, if it's not new and everyone already knows it, you've got to be some kind of massive dumbshit to go telling everyone acting like you've just learned it and you're very proud of it. Do you see threads about "omgosh smoking is bad for you!" or "wowowow molecules are made of atoms which are made of quarks!!!!11"

Fuck off. And op NEATLY ignored the request to go into detail about what he means by
>It is in the same vein that Democracy gives people the illusion of choice.
Could it be that op can't actually go into further detail and has no fucking clue what he's talking about and just ctrl+c'ed something that sounded smart?

>still being trolled

> implying blogging isn't the highest form of education

>>6133500
Not OP here, but isn't it easy to understand what OP says?
But continue living in your delusions.

Weev is some kind of crazy man. He's obviously very intelligent, but he's simply nuts.

>>6133500
STFU, better than your over 9000 relationshitthreads here.

>>6133808
No, pseudo-intellectualism is about on par with relationshit.

>>6133430
>They have choice, but only choices that will benifit the society.

Holy fuck this statement is so stupid I can't stand it. Don't feed the troll etc., but fuck. What exactly are you so desperate to do that society won't let you? Molest children, set houses on fire, perhaps run a bootleg establishment?

There's plenty you can legally do that doesn't benefit society in any way. For example, blogging.

Democracy does give you choice. It might be limited in some aspects, but it's still a choice. As opposed to, say, communism. There is no illusion. I say "choice" as vaguely as possible with no allusion to what the choice is actually ABOUT only because op repeatedly failed to explain what the choice was about himself. If you disagree, actually explain your argument (if you have one) instead of just dismissing it and pretending to be too good to explain yourself.

The sum of op's post and in turn the threads general topic seems to be "democracy sux" and "blogging is stupid." These are not insightful opinions (as one anon said) but you could argue that it's well articulated, in that there are no grammatical errors. I guess. Maybe.

>>6133112
summed up bloggers succinctly.

>>6135287
There are a fuckton of responsibilities you have to fullfill, especially here with all the tax paying and other shit stuff.
You either do this or you are a criminal.
Freedom much?

>>6135287
>Democracy does give you choice. It might be limited in some aspects, but it's still a choice.

In the US, the choices are relegated to insigifnicant issues. The things that are important, like war, militarily occupying the whole world, boarder security, trillion dollar bailouts that noone wants yet still get passed, warantless wiretapping, size of government, a reputation of torture, etc.

In all these things, republicans and democracts are in basic agreement. They disagree on like whether we should raise taxes by $500 dollars, while in the meantime both parties raise spending by billions.

mcdonalds is quite different than burger king if youre in the business of fast food.

bloxquote

>Democracy gives people the illusion of choice.

Democracy gives people choice -- the illusion is not of the choice itself but of that choice being a meaningful form of control over the government.

>Blogging gives people with average to slightly above average intelligence the idea that they are somehow contributing to the public dialogue, when in reality their regurgitated opinions are selected from a small buffet of acceptable viewpoints driven by the economic elites of our society.

An opinion means nothing unless it's perceived as being a popular opinion. Blogs can create an impression that some opinion is popular even though rest of the media is claiming that it is not. It may or may not have anything to do with reality initially, however over time conformist public will adopt the point of view that it perceives as popular, turning its proclamation (being it in traditional media or blogs) into a self-fulfilling prophecy.