January 21, 2010
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Zero Feet Deep
Someone once said that “still waters run deep.” I don’t know who this person was or what this person did for a living. The person who made this statement may have been simply stating the obvious fact that deep rivers don’t make as much noise as shallow currents. Or, as philosophy majors like to pretend, this person may have been making the existential observation that unassuming people are more interesting than they appear. I don’t know what the person’s intent was by making this statement. All I know is that this person was either a river enthusiast or critical thinker, and this person definitely was not Malcolm Gladwell.
Do still waters run deep? Now, I’m not a “deep” person, but I am certainly quiet. Interestingly, being quiet and keeping my mouth shut has inadvertently stirred the waters on Xanga. Whenver I come across a revolting or unintelligent blog post, rather than commenting with an onslaught of insults and expletives, I usually opt to not comment and simply leave zero eProps. This action appears to drive the authors of these posts batshit insane, instigating these dorks to spew more of the nonsense that warranted them zero eProps in the first place.
In a community where comments are perceived to be more valuable than eProps, it’s interesting that zero ePropping someone raises their ire moreso than calling them an outright buffoon.
I don’t know if still waters run deep, but babbling brooks sure are shallow.
Comments (7)
i guess sometimes it depends on the number of dead bodies that float up
i can’t do it. i cant leave you zero e-props. it just feels so…so…so wrong. i love me some manilalalalalaaaaaaa!
*burp*
Manila, I always loved you man. Still do. And I get what you’re saying. I do. I have unsubscribed from some people before when it gets like that (and a lot of times they don’t notice till later and add me again).
But this time I’m laughing at you a little. Come on. Don’t ask your readers to believe that it doesn’t occur to you, that going over and drawing attention to yourself by deliberately clicking zero eProps, instead of the default two eProps, or instead of just ignoring the post entirely, is just your unorthodox but still vocal way of poking people and saying that you don’t approve… and that you don’t feel the need to explain yourself. That has nothing to do with “depth,” now, does it? It’s more like “making a passive aggressive statement about the shallowness of something I couldn’t bring myself to just ignore.”
On second thought, let us not go to Camelot. It is a silly place.
Wow. The three above comments are just awesome.
And I’m with you, I don’t like to leave commentary on irritating blogs. And there is no shortage of the shallow on Xanga (or anywhere else for that matter…)
I think you’re insightful and deep so I guess that saying is true hahaha
-river enthusiast
I like it