Process and Purpose

There's no denying it, in a societal culture

respectful of the feelings of others one

has a tendency to withhold the urge to

comment, render an unsolicited opinion

interfere with someone else's values and

beliefs and certainly hesitate to disclose any

personal thoughts on religion to spare

another the dismay that may result and at

the same time conceal one's own reactions

from scrutiny in that most respectful of

polite societies. Unleashed from physical

proximity and the social weal however

through the Internet where distances

vanish and identities become phantom

we feel released from discretion and

whether prodded or not feel free to dispense

advice, proffer questionable opinions

put forward assertive claims difficult to

authenticate and lay claim to authorships

not quite our own as experts with the

wisdom to officiously demand attention

while obnoxiously denigrating those in

true positions of merited authority through

the medium whose platform encourages

idealization of verbal chaos, mangling

accuracy of reportage to reflect an opinion

all one's own to amass a dedicated follow.