Rant

I'm tired right now, very tired. Even worse I'm bored. My brain is clouded with the sound of a man's voice a thousand miles away but it rings with unambiguous clarity.

NICE.

He needs to shut the hell up. Stop polluting my airspace. Take your odious crap elsewhere. Everywhere I am surrounded with cutting words and scathing indictments. Philosophical charity is one and a half fathoms deep. Redeeming social value of speech is amputated, replaced with parody, satire and most prolifically Ad Hominem prosthetics. Television is rife with example. Even academia is riddled with the slugs of ideological warfare. Competition is innately human, Hobbes agreed, but ours is enduring and fruitless. These confrontations serve no purpose, have no tangible end and agitate the masses. Debate is inexorably fallacious, look at Hilldawg and BO. The people could use some substance.

Rather than focus on merit, pundits only look to discredit their adversaries. Warrant is hardly a requirement if opportunity for asserting character superiority over another exists. The information age has birthed a society engrossed in cheap tricks and instantaneous thrills. The thrill is gone-from articulate critical thinking, if there ever was such a thing. Society is now blessed with fanatical coverage of political soap opera, with all factions claiming deceit. Claims founded only in ego and socio-centric primacy; to disparage and castigate is apparently the ultimate buzz. Slander, evidently, is intoxicating and poignantly popular. Gossip. Arena patronage ensures abrasive conflict only.

Instead of building for a common good, we are busy dynamiting the base. This speaks to the inefficacy of philosophy in practice and the staunch primeval instinct of humanity. We will never, "all get along," ambition renders amicability unrealistic. Without the ability to alter this manifestation, the disillusioned can only beg refuge from the oppressive onslaught of opinion from the commentators of all niches. Keep it to yourself, let us think.