Mark Morford on our collective negativity
Monday, February 1st, 2010
Why are you so terribly disappointing?
I calculate it took about seven minutes, give or take, after Steve Jobs finished introducing the shinypretty iPad before the whiny attacks on the wondergizmo began flooding in, how it didn’t have this or that expected feature, how it can’t do live video chat, doesn’t have Flash, the bezel is too big and it won’t double as a meat thermometer, how it doesn’t really revolutionize much of anything despite how it’s, you know, this gorgeous 1.5-pound slab of aluminum and glass that works flawlessly and can perform roughly one thousand tasks in a more fluid and astonishing way than any device of its kind in history.
My God, did you hear that pathetic State of the Union? That guy, that President Obama? Disappointing times a thousand, am I right? What the hell happened to him? Why is he so weak and ineffectual? Why the hell can’t he step up and fix the entire planet in under 400 days like he promised he would, in my dreams and fantasies and impossible liberal grass-fed organic tofu greengasms? Doesn’t he know I put a goddamn bumper sticker on my Subaru for him? I’ve never done that for anyone. Bastard.
This is a brilliant piece. Morford has really captured something. Read the whole piece, not just my outtakes. Fantastic.
[via Kottke.org]
Can’t people be positive once in a while? I love the stuff about Obama- people are crazy!
Pam: I certainly get why people are so negative. The world is pretty messed up at the moment and we’re all closely connected to it through a variety of media that keep bouncing it up through an echo chamber. I was hoping that Obama could cut through some of it but I’m afraid he’s not succeeding, at least for me. Not yet anyway. I’m not joining the tea party… maybe the green tea party.