So I’m trying my hand at this thing that the cool kids do
called tweeting (I have no idea if it’s even cool or not and I think I’m ok
with that. I think). In any case, I like the idea of trying to
express thoughts and stories that impact others and it seems like the new
outlets for social media are the way to do that in the current age.
I had this thought a while back about how millennials (my
generation) seem to be a generation of commentators. There are a lot of people my age and younger
who make a living and spend a lot of their time writing and talking about other
people, their lives and their content.
I realized that what concerns me about some millennial
commentators, and even some no millennial ones, is the Snarkiness. I don’t like snarkiness. I think that’s a word even though Microsoft Word is telling me it isn’t a word.
Snarkiness is that sort of cocky, sometimes
mean spirited cynical attitude that can make it easy to spout off whatever
comment you want about whoever who want without thinking about the effects of
those comments.
I like the idea of thoughtful comments.
Don’t get me wrong:
I'm all about sarcasm and satire and biting humor. Yet even if we are making
light of or making a sarcastic comment about someone who perhaps is making
questionable choices (Cough KANYE –KANYE
WEST cough!) those comments can still be used to say something greater and
perhaps even reach the person we are satirizing. Biting humor also serves to
show a viewer just how ridiculous or serious something is.
At the end of the day what I’m not fond of this idea that people
can just say whatever they want and others just need to deal with it; this
“nothing is sacred anymore” idea.
There are sacred
things and I have to believe there is always room to make talk and ideas and humor into something that is meaningful and without cynacism.
And of course, truth is a major concern when attempting to
do so.
Thanks,
Christopher
