2nd entry

" Its those armchair bloggers that created a generation of critics instead of leaders "

I'm not sure if many would agree with this but I strongly believe that this is very true. Yes I know what I'm doing now is kind of contridicting but I need to do this. It also doesn't neccesary means bloggers but there si this slang for them called "keyboard warriors". Anyway, at the very beginning, blogs were used solely as an online diary for people to share their lives with other people who are close to them. Then it slowly became a platform for people to introduce their oversea trips and such, and suddenly there are bloggers reaching celebrity statues ! They became famous, and with that comes pathetic fans who feels like they have a less interesting life and they have the need to live through other people. Some of them get jealous eventually and try to get attention to themselves by being "different". They have very little to talk about themselves but shitloads to talk about others, anyway for them they feel its safe to hide behind the keyboard and computer screen and criticising on others and they have weakminded people following them and they feel great about it. As time pass, they start getting jealous with each other and then thats how blog wars are started. She would criticise on his standard of english while he would comment on her recent nose job, and you get people who doesnt really know them personally, or even know whats going on, taking sides! Wow~

Then suddenly, judges for a singing competition gets the spotlight, they are not really there to judge but to stir the crowd with their sharp tongue. So we get bloggers or keyboard warriors imitating them, classic example of monkey see monkey do. With the advancement of internet and it's speed, it also changes how people can connect with others online, whatever a person do can be uploaded online within minutes or even seconds. Then you get websites like Stomp, whatever small little thing that people feel that it doesnt comform with society they would post it up.

So, people are afraid to be different nowadays, they don't want to be seen by the world as weirdos or crazy, they don't want to be extraordinary, in case they just become "extra". So, that is how critics have slowed down humanities advancement because of that moment of glory where you took away someone dignity and pride in their work, it is so easy for the keyboard warriors to just sit back and criticise without the repurcussion of people coming back at you with a punch. But its not easy for people to rise up and then lead others or be the leaders in a certain field. As my mentor said, the wright brothers were ridiculated because they were being extra, but without them we wouldnt have achieve flight for the first time, now we have taken a small step on the moon, and because of that there was a giant leap for mankind, but people nowadays don't want to make ground breaking invention that changes humanity, they want to sit back and comment. Sad.

My first entry

This is the first time that I've blogged in my life and I have mixed feelings about it. I have never kept a journal or a diary because I personally feel it is childish, and not very manly to do so, but I do not mind others who keeps it. Previously, when I was in primary or secondary school, I hated it when the teachers would make us keep a journal as a homework, I always gave the teachers crap in my journal by writing stuffs like what time I woke up and what I did today. I feel that journal is personal and it gives a person a place to rant and pour their feelings into an outlet without being judged by society or making others change their perception of them. However, making a journal a homework and then submitting it to be read and marked or post it online just defeats the purpose. How can it be marked when its so personal ?? I have alot more to talk about it but saving it for next entry.