Did you know we're responsible for the fall of civilization?
So, New Yorker film critic David Denby wrote a book called Snark: It's Mean, It's Personal, and It's Ruining Our Conversation. Tell us how you really feel, David. Or even better - how about everyone else telling us how they really feel?

(NEWSFLASH: Keith Olbermann NOT snarky. Film at 11.)

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	dragonfangirl 2009-01-24 01:41 am UTC (link)
	Yes, because before the invention of snark, everyone was always perfectly civil, reasonable, and courteous, and perfect gentlemen to each other in conversation. And you know I'm being perfectly sincere, because to be otherwise would mean I was being snarky. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	ayezur 2009-01-24 05:56 am UTC (link)
	Oscar Wilde was deeply misunderstood by history. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cmdr_zoom 2009-01-24 08:55 am UTC (link)
	and Ambrose Bierce did not actually exist. Nor Samuel Clemens. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	chibikaijuu 2009-01-24 09:22 am UTC (link)
	There is no hilariously insulting Greek poetry. None. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	warchio 2009-01-24 01:25 pm UTC (link)
	Actually, he claims that snark started in Athens (Presumably things like giving Pericles the nickname 'Onionhead') which suggests that snark is not destroying conversation, but is in fact one of the building blocks of democracy and debate. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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