- What sort of Sitesurfer are
you?
- (And you all
know
damn well who you are, or else you wouldn't feel so
insulted!)
Meet
The
Airhead: "I am very comfortable in my own
self-generated niche. For only I actually thrive in our downright
unreasonable
monological world full of people who always talk without listening
to each other or even to themselves. Yea, verily, for my responses are utter non sequitur. I never actually
bother to actually read before responding. I only have an impulse to
chaotic incoherent self expression, and whatever random input at a glance is simply my convenient
Rorschach free association trigger stimulus and nothing more."
Meet
The
Code Nerd:
"They may tell you that I cannot see the forest for the trees, but what little
does that signify?
When surfing an unfamiliar website, as guardian of the holy sanctity of html, I
proudly make a
point never to use the intended browser, derive so much as one iota of joy from graphics,
FX or other gimmicks, nor, especially, to allow myself to be distracted by actual
content. I simply issue the wildest and most sweepingly
purpose-defeating demands for everything be scrapped, dumped and changed
completely, with no regard whatsoever for anything save the pristine purity of
code! Because
such is all that matters!"
Meet The lamer
Flamer:
"When surfing an unfamiliar website, in response I demonstrate my innate superiority by
unremittingly spewing forth picayune
irrelevance, unrelenting abuse and ugly
groundless accusation! Because I'm so
well adjusted and cool
with the in-crowd..."
- Meet
The
Web Ninny: "When surfing an
unfamiliar website, I just throw up my hands in helplessness! And above all,
I never, ever explain
what's wrong or give the URL of whatever page I am complaining about or post
online I respond
to in such relentless stream-of-consciousness, no more, likewise, than I would ever, for example,
supply context by excerpt the emails
I answer, but only many months later. And, naturally, I take great and wounded umbrage at all
exasperated demands for context or reference! I'm only
crying out for trying to help,
after all."
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- Meet
The UTTER
CRETIN:
"Hi! I just popped by to announce my adamant refusal to
engage
with whatever your content. I felt compelled to reach out and by way of my blindingly picayune
and
irrelevant
response, to herald your dawning awareness of my unflagging commitment
to wasting you time and good will. It is not the job or your audience to
grow in self awareness by
soul searching to understand whatever unsettles them, any more than it
is the work of an author to stir up the reader. Sooth me in my
deep-seated
chronic distrust, damn it!"
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- “I am appalled by
sex
every seven seconds.”
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Meet
The
IRATE CRUSADING PETTY PALTRY PICAYUNE PRUDE: "Even if I never find the wherewithal
to navigate any other content whatsoever, I will, nevertheless,
unerringly home in and locate whatever the one particular iota of content, however tame, trivial or
obscure, that will most offend my excruciatingly delicate sensibilities
and save me from the need or dire temptation whatsoever of ever pondering or discussing anything even remotely
interesting, important or
relevant.
Soft
flame,
-dare you protest... Whatever can you be talking about! What's my problem? -You may
demand... Well,
let's just get one thing straight, I've got no problem, little mister! I do
it for all the children Online.
All else must stay perpetually on hold until the entire world capitulates to me
and my fawning
sycophantc
toadies!
Because,
the ever fragile young (just for precaution, even if nowhere even remotely in
evidence!) must always be shielded by my own unyielding terror,
scandalized obsession, stultifying fixation, life long
denial and
taboo.
Never be insensitive: After all, what has Feminism got to do with equal
self reliance and rational calm? No, no, that's not what freedom is all about! It's
for your own good, dear... Who wouldn't want to
grow up as happy as and
heteronymously well adjusted as I?
Values must be safeguarded far earlier than they can actually be
comprehended.
Otherwise, the resultant
sex-crazed drooling adolescent is a deformed and
unnaturally pathetic
creature and a threat to
our way of life. But an
unstable Patriotic
bible-thumping closed minded
Moralistically upright and
chronically offended
cockblcking young
slut-shamer is strong, capable and ready to preserve our traditions and help keep the same
leaders in power, just like me!"
The elder child whispers
secretively
to the younger child:
"That plumber over
there is
a homosexual!"
So
the
younger child looks up wide-eyed
to the
elder child, wondering:
"What's a
plumber?"
The
moral:
To the pure, all
is...
To the puerile,
all
is...
Meet
The
DELUSIONAL FANATIC: "I am a flagrant Antinationalist secretively beating about
the bush and
indignantly demanding blanket exemptions from accountability,
consistent logic and
Reality Testing for all of my own obscure and fanatical
articles of faith and Paranormal claims that inform all my distorted views,
animosity towards criticism, question begging, depraved indifference and
destructive behaviors, willfully blind to all
contradiction,
Empirical,
logical,
moral or
ethical. Humor me patiently as I insult your intelligence and
offend all compassion, or else suffer my wrath and scorn!"
Meet
The
VAGUE Gist:
"I never imagined that there are actually people who begin, first, by seizing
upon any single point in a
hypertext, to then construct their understanding of
the whole, adding to their own picture as they move through the content. What an
interesting notion! Me, I'm just happy to browse all of this fascinating
content, which I don't yet understand. What, aren't I getting the gist of it?
You mean,
we're not
making balloon animals? What, can it be that
are we not communicating but merely bypassing?"
Meet
TED,
the EVER Obtuse
Inductivist: "I have so much
to offer in response to this website, but I can never come to the point. The
Universe, after all, is a riddle, and I am noting if not Universal! And so, by
bombarding you with examples, marshalling copious illustrations, useless press
clippings and seemingly random hyperlinks, my
message, surely will arise, by and by, in all of it's magnificent splendor!"
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Meet
The
Savant
Explorer: "When surfing an unfamiliar website, I look for some introductory
paragraph or two, usually at the top of the page, to explain whatever section my
scrutiny has taken me to, orienting myself (by the application of sound
integrative principles) in the body of the content in order
to proceed from there (reading what is actually writ and subjecting the texts
to Critical Thinking, emotionally centered and unthreatened in the
embrace of all of it's alien
"otherness"), to then perhaps
compose my
own cogent and pointed reply. (Speaking out confidently for myself and not
as unordained and damaged representative on Earth of any whatever disassociated bizarre abstraction!)
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- Otherwise, if need be, I try to ask
intelligent questions and provide a proof reading note or two in order to point
out whatever ambiguities that might remain so confounding. I even trouble to
offer my user story coherently, in case of any whatever difficulties in
navigation or other glitches etc. Then I read,
attentively, such response as I might receive and then revisit the site again to review
any pursuant modifications. In this manner, both my own understanding and clarity on
the Web for everyone, progress."
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- Meet
The
lone agendist:
Among the different types of students
in school,
intrinsically
motivated
self-driven students generally ignore all but
specific
knowledge of
whatever particular and solitary interest to them. And indeed, likewise
among all sitesurfer types, the rare self-driven
visitors to
FoolQuest.com, are
seemingly the only ones who readily navigate and understand any part if
it, indeed without qualm or complaint! Likewise online as in school, they
still tend to be interested only in whatever their own
solitary purpose and edification. With no need to be
lead about by the nose
online, they pick out what they need, and even pour over whatever they
find most compelling. Yet alas, they may still
crimestop at anything so
taboo
as taking up arms together pursuant to such various radical and unorthodox
strategies as propounded here on
FoolQuest.com
- Much of this
website is long and wordy text, grappling as it does, with such
complex challenges.
-
Short
attention span
Cretins,
please consider yourselves
duly warned!
- No responsibility can
be accepted for any manner of anger, confusion and incomprehension
in the minds of those, by free choice and preference, quite simply
too impatient for actually reading anything.
-
Loss
of interest
outright is no grave injury, but even a time saver
for all concerned
-
- Finding
The
unmet
collaborator, the
star
first follower,
will
always be easier said than done,
but what else is to be expected? It is important to work things through,
because serious
concerted action begins from serious conversation and focus.
In the famous words of
Socrates:
""An unexamined life is not worth the living for a human being."
Relationship
arises only as a byproduct of purposeful interaction and substantive
communication, and never otherwise.
For happiness, Epicurus espoused freedom,
friendship
and thought.
Happy people talk more seriously
together, freely, and with less
small talk,
deliberating
Dialectically
in
controversy,
with
civility
as
autonomous
equals.
Happy people are
more productive and
likely to
choose creative activities. Happiness comes in meeting ones needs
for
capable
interaction with responsible others, making progress every day.
Therefore
FoolQuest.com
proffers a unique proposal of close
collaboration among equals, to the
agenda.
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Agassi 2003 - 2022