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Dan Fogelberg's ([info]llama_treats) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2009-01-23 18:43:00
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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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[info]issendai
2009-01-24 03:13 am UTC (link)
In the beginning of the book (which you can read for free on Amazon), he does say it's been around forever, and lists quite a few authors from the Classical world.

Then he yells "Yee-haw!" and shoots his pistols wildly in all directions, calling whatever he hits "snark." I couldn't tell what in hell he thought snark actually was. Some random snide comment that barely registers a 1 on the humor scale is snark? And this other painfully unfunny comment is witty and quite above the ugliness that is snark? And Colbert's too good for snark, but this other guy's too bad for it, and today is Friday so anything that mentions ocelots is dry wit! I could see what he was trying to get at, but his argument needed more than an ability to talk about public discourse. It needed a grasp of humor that he just didn't have.

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[info]hallidae
2009-01-24 03:23 am UTC (link)
But if he's aware that it's been around forever, and the art of conversation hasn't died in this long, how is it suddenly going to ruin... God, now my head hurts.

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[info]issendai
2009-01-24 03:27 am UTC (link)
It's the frequency, not the existence, of snark that he disagrees with. I can kinda see it, but on the other hand, I am a snarky bitch of the snark generation, and I don't see anything particularly wrong with the level of snark in society today.

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[info]hallidae
2009-01-24 03:32 am UTC (link)
Oh, pfft to that. If the internet had existed in ancient Greece, the snark would have been flying even faster and thicker than it already did. The only reason he acts like the frequency is a new thing is because now there are more records of it lying about.

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[info]cmdr_zoom
2009-01-24 08:56 am UTC (link)
Cue the "surely the end of the world is at hand" quote from ancient Greece.

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I need to get out more.
[info]caffeine_fairy
2009-01-24 09:01 pm UTC (link)
"What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?" Plato

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[info]spawn_of_kong
2009-01-24 12:52 pm UTC (link)
and today is Friday so anything that mentions ocelots is dry wit!

Well, at least he got one thing right.

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