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I Know You Are but What Am I?!
The Snark Epidemic in Modern Media Discourse

Churlish is a word one rarely gets to use in normal conversation. "Stop being such a... churlish fellow!" does not readily roll off the tongue in modern repartee. But lately I find myself thinking it, often in response to one thing or another I'm reading; usually comments, Facebook contributions, hatchet jobs written as opinion pieces. We've become a churlish, snarling society, ready to snap at the drop of a hat, quick with the snarky rejoinder, poised for the jugular as a default position. We seem incapable of intellectual debate, conversational exchange or even simple discussion without the attempt to draw blood.

Why so cranky? Why can't we share our ideas -- different, opposing or even mildly alternative -- without turning on each other like a pack of cur dogs? Foot-stomping, whining toddlers? Finger pointing, snotty grade-schoolers? We've gone from the repressive culture of the Victorian era, through the enforced civility of the 40's and 50's, past the wild rebellion of the 60's and 70's, right up to the Pit Bull Throat-Ripping Mentality of the 2000's... prompting the worst of us to regress to a certain and deeply unfortunate state of grunting Neanderthalism.

Lorraine Devon Wilke - Writer, photographer
(via The Huffington Post)
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1590x3972px 3.76 MB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon PowerShot A630
Shutter Speed
1/60 second
Aperture
F/3.5
Focal Length
7 mm
Date Taken
May 19, 2011, 3:21:17 AM
Sensor Size
3mm
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Cool like the drawings!