Your Say.

From today, I no longer have faith in the minds of the masses.

I used to read the Herald Sun, ever since I was about twelve I'd say, not exactly daily, but when I got chance I'd scan through for anything interesting. Ever since I began, my favourite section was the Your Say section (That being it's current name, I'm not sure if it had another name previously, I think it may have). As of recent I've had less chances to glance through the Sun but I'd always look through the Your Say section first.

For those unfamiliar, the Your Say section is basically the part of the paper where they publish things people write, email or text in to the Sun. I think it was a silly idea to allow people to text in their opinion on matters, or at least I believe so.

I used to highly enjoy reading what people had to say on serious matters, giving me new perspectives on stories I'd read and what not, but slowly, the content began to deteriorate, along with the content of the newspaper itself. They began to focus on more trivial and whitespace filler news. What used to be a footnote in the corner of an odd page now became very close to front page news. Then the people who wrote in became dumber.

At this point, all the Your Say section has become is a public internet forum that gets printed. All it is is people bickering at each other, trying to set off one another, making idiotic remarks just looking for reactions. If I read another 'Got a problem with our state, then get out' submission, I'm going to hunt down and kill whoever wrote it in. Matter just aren't that fucking simple. You really think that's helping us look like a decent country by saying 'Don't like what we do? Then fuck off.'? Holy fucking Sol, some people are stupid.

In retrospect, it was the texting that ruined that section, that and the idiotic society we live in, where truly important matters don't seem to matter at all. I look forward to death sometimes.

'til next time,
Matt.