My personal abduction experience at Area 51

Well, we haven't had quite the response we were hoping for with our last post. The intention of this blogging assignment was to find out how much influence we could have on the public sphere by blogging our ideals and opinions, and therefore make an impact on the world. We even used inflamatory language with the hope that we would spark a fire in someone enough that they would, A) tell us to fuck ourselves, B) make a good argument as to why we were batshit crazy, or C) cause enough of a ruckus that other people would be intrigued enough to check out what was happening on our side of the bloggosphere. None of that happened. So, here is our plea...what makes you interested in a blog? What would make you want to respond and become an active participant? As far as we can tell from this experience so far, pornography, stories about bees, and alien abduction are the only things that make people think these days. So, now, we are off to write a pornographic bee abduction story to post later...I hope you are pleased. So, here is our video of the week:

Let's get it started in here...

As a group, we have discussed the idea of barring the uneducated or "culturally ignorant" (ie: have not progressed from backwards thinking) from influencing the public sphere. While this idea could come across to some as harsh or elitist, our point was actually that we believe that in order to influence the public sphere, a person should be required to meet certain requirements for the sake of progression. This comes from the idea that if "social retards" keep participating in social discussion, they only pull the discussion down, or in a circle, therefore preventing us from moving forward and solving actual problems in our society...and that sucks.

For an example of this type of sidelining ignorant banter, check out this video:


While watching this, we felt that some of these statements these people were making were racism disguised as "patriotism". In this latest election, we have heard statements from the "right wing conservatives" that claim liberals are anti-American, parts of this country are more PRO-America than others (ie: the ones that vote republican),and Obama is a Muslim terrorist who wants to turn this country into a socialist government. All of these statements are intended to influence the public sphere and they are using FEAR as a motivator.

This type of campaign is evaluating a candidate using intuition and impressions rather than research and fact, and this is a dangerous way to elect an official.

So what do you think? Agree or disagree, we want to hear from you!