Thankfully, Most Travelers Are Not “Passive-Aggressive, Self-Loathing, Loser Fucktards”

If you happen to be reading this at work, my apologies for the PG-13 headline. Seriously though, you shouldn’t be reading this. Get back to work.

The ever humorous gapingvoid.com blog had a post entitled “Why We’re All Blogging Less”. Reason number 4:

Believe it or not, some of us have better things to do than to be continually justifying ourselves to a crowd of passive-aggressive, self-loathing, loser fucktards. Thankfully these folk are a minority, but their one skill-set in life seems to be in the less-than-noble art of “using up too much oxygen”. Which makes “Engaging in The Conversation” a lot less appealing for the others. Life is short.

That may sound quite harsh, but I think it’ll come as a surprise to some folks that many blog audiences are less than kind. As a web geek, I read my fair share of graphic design and web development forums and blogs daily. Often the comment areas of same devolve into nothing short of all-out flame wars with side A protesting against side B, piling on heaps of holier-than-thou rhetoric about why they’re wrong and why they should just go to hell and die.

Political blogs are much the same; no surprise there.

That said, it just made me realize what a caring and closely knit slice of the blogosphere we travelers occupy. It’s not often – if ever – that you see travel blog readers go head-to-head with travel bloggers. It just doesn’t happen. We’re all on essentially the same side. (My semi-coherent rants notwithstanding =) ).

So if you’re looking for at least one reason to keep blogging, there’s always that.