Now, listen here punk.. Shit just got real.
What’s wrong with you, Mr. Sibal? Here I was, enjoying my indifference to all the social and political issues that should have evoked a sense of duty to voice my opinion through this blog, and you come along and ruin it all. More than a year long hiatus between anything that tickled my ‘righteous’ bone. Mind you Sibal, this has been a rather eventful year, what with the CWG fiasco, myriad of scams (Feel free to take your pick..how about the one equivalent to the GDP of the Philippines..Not to your fancy? Oh well, there’s lots more to pick from), Arab Renaissance and, Anna’s reincarnation as the new Gandhi. Well, a more colourful version of Gandhi, if you ask me. Ideals like publicly flogging alcoholics just gives him an extra edge over the Mahatma, no? However, all it took was your imbecility to force me to take the trouble of offering my views. I could easily have spent this time browsing internet ‘meme’ websites with funny pictures of cats in costumes, and Chuck Norris facts, auto correct mistakes and badly drawn sexist comic strips in which women get sandwiches.
Cats in costumes, mother fu**er...that’s what I gave up for this..So, listen real good..
The problem, as I see it, Sibal, is your complete and utter ignorance of how the Internet works, and more importantly, what it stands for. The Internet isn’t a form of social media in the same way like TV or newspaper. It’s a platform, a gathering place for the common man and, anyone with a computer is invited. Unlike those two media, everyone’s opinion is welcome. You see, as much as you would like to deny it, we DO have opinions (and unlike our PM, we don’t have some ‘Madam’ telling us what they are). Lots, in fact. Moreover, the way your government is running things, in all honesty, you wouldn’t like most of them. See, our problem is that we grew up in the Internet age. Growing up, we were shameless enough to think that we had the right express our opinions. You can imagine our amazement when we found that this right was drafted into this thing everyone calls the ‘Constitution’. Now, we had the power to transmit our views to sympathetic ears (eyes, if you want to be a stickler for accurate analogies) over the Internet. All around the world, blogs and social networking sites allowed people with like-minded beliefs to exchange their ideas. The people got a Voice. Dissent, like misery, loves company and Internet helped seek it out. It gave the people a sense of power. You would think that in a democratic country the ballot would bestow such a power.
Sibu, dissent cannot always be in a form that nurses your ego and takes care of your sensibilities. Sometimes it involves poorly photoshopped pictures of the Prime Minister and Manmohan Singh (See what I did here..). Harvinder Singh taught us a completely novel mode of expressing dissent. Would you rather have us do that? You are under the fallacy that politiocos are above ridicule. You must understand that they are the only people worth ridiculing. It’s not our fault that an annoying less-than-honourable Italian-Indian woman, and her servile comrade are easy targets?
Stop acting like an obese teenage girl who is being bullied online and get a sense of fu**ing humour.
Firstly, stop patronizing us internet users. We know what is out there. The Internet has it’s own set of laws and law- enforcers. Objectionable content is often removed once enough users have rated it to be so, on many social networking sites (just like a democracy, see Sibu?). Authenticity of content has to be verified on websites like Wikipedia. Secondly, stop trying to add a religious angle to the whole issue. That’s not what this is about, so stop pretending like it is. Is it mere coincidence that you want to screen content from social networking sites, when such sites fueled the Lokpal uprising? Thirdly, Sibu, there’s a 100 million Internet users in India. These aren’t the kind of numbers you want to piss off.
So, Sibu, find something else worthwhile to do. I would imagine the Lokpal Bill drafting (or lack of it thereof) would take up enough of your time.
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