5.25.2006

The Black Hole of Self-Consciousness

I recently read something posted by one of the hundreds of millions of my fellow bloggers. When I read what my fellow bloggers have written, I inevitably compare my writing to theirs, and not until today was I so thoroughly disconcerted.

I realized this:
We all sound the same.

Some of us are funnier than others, some of us are more interesting than others, but when it comes down to the fundamentals, you could put all of our posts in one blog and nobody would ever know the difference.

This verges on predicting a distopian wasteland in which we all have something that's supposedly unique only to make us all exactly the same, and while that's perfectly valid, I prefer taking it in a slightly different direction:

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