The Rise of the Unseen and the Unheard
The amount of vitriol that is being thrown by bloggers and trolls at each other on the internet has become so outrageous that those with real voice of reason have disengaged themselves from this impossible fray. It is so difficult to distinguish class and educational attainment in this battle of words. You can not tell which ones are the intellectual elites or the urban/rural poor as nearly everyone alternately bash like school bullies or punch with high falluting melodrama.
There are those who, for as long as they could remember, have been unseen and unheard of. Their voices have been lost in the cacophony of louder voices of the intellectually and financially privileged. They have largely been stowed away from the limelights to give space to those regarded as more important figures of society.
The advent of cyberspace, and the ease in which this could be utilized, opened up a huge arena where these people could express their thoughts and opinions on matters that they did not have access to before. Finally, they see that there are many of them and that they could express their opinions with just a few strokes of their fingertips.
On the other side of the spectrum are the advantaged, who have been ruling the arena for a much longer time and are used to hearing similar voices and ideas. Their indulgence in their freedom of expression exercised with an unwritten decorum is being threatened by a boisterous melee of those who just found theirs.
Hence the resulting free-for-all.
There are those who, for as long as they could remember, have been unseen and unheard of. Their voices have been lost in the cacophony of louder voices of the intellectually and financially privileged. They have largely been stowed away from the limelights to give space to those regarded as more important figures of society.
The advent of cyberspace, and the ease in which this could be utilized, opened up a huge arena where these people could express their thoughts and opinions on matters that they did not have access to before. Finally, they see that there are many of them and that they could express their opinions with just a few strokes of their fingertips.
On the other side of the spectrum are the advantaged, who have been ruling the arena for a much longer time and are used to hearing similar voices and ideas. Their indulgence in their freedom of expression exercised with an unwritten decorum is being threatened by a boisterous melee of those who just found theirs.
Hence the resulting free-for-all.
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