Misleading and irresponsible

virulence appears in many forms

posted by pdl~ on 10 Feb 2012 at 3:23 am

...I totally concur with LJones in that the slant of this article misleads the reader in assuming that as a 'spectator' of life, it's a relief to pass on information whether true or not, whereas the effect of doing so may alleviate the speaker of the words, the effect of the words spoken act as a mimetic diaspora of virulent content that actually is a dangerous pollutant to the collective conscience. It is much more important to difuse a situation that is true of someone by the methology suggested by LJones, guaranteeing both the safety of the public, and ensuring that the truth of the situation is well contained and manageable. Virulent untruth regarding a person is soul destroying, dangerous, socially repugnant, and when gossip is extrapolated into the trillions of byte's via the Internet, it might somehow feel like Keanu Reeves in the last scene of 'The Day the Earth Stood Still', when he entered the maelstrom of virulent destruction, uttering the words,'I'll try'...so there's a real heroism in being a master of trying and of bringing down the virulence. Also, I recently tried the online matchmaking/dating scene and found it was an absolute 'circus maximus'; one of the most terrifying experiences imaginable, where you are exposed to the thousands of public opinions, rants, 'shouts', hoots and hollers...to me, this is not 'social' networking, it's not social at all. So as to gossip and it's attendant variations, it's just an unhealthy root system, that is ultimately deterimental to the social biosphere.