Originally posted by: Gaffer TapeAnd popularity is crap!
Too true. Also if everybody had their own threads it would be pretty lame. It isn't a free world, not really. It is all just an illusion (the freedom, not the world). If everybody had their own thread, there everybody would want people to post in their thread, when people don't post in their thread they will feel annoyed, conversations would be divided over a zillion threads named after people, and in each of these little threads, very little pointful conversation would take place. This is why it is not a free world, because if it was everybody would do what they want, and if everybody did what they want, they would then NOT be doing what everybody else wants them to do and this has the potential to make everybody pretty unhappy. For example, when you wake up in the morning, do you have a choice if you would like to go to school or work? Can you choose to toss out that stupid report your boss wants on his desk by noon tomorrow? Or that research paper that if due by Thursday at 5:00? If you were really free, couldn't you just skip finals week? Or take a whole four months off work for the Christmas holiday? The world is not free. We are all slaves. And we are all slaves to any number of masters at that. The more "Freedom" that comes, the more freedom we don't have. We could be free, in the past we were free, but in the current way in which society is build we can never be free.