rakslice's Journal: Sympathy for the masses

I'm starting to develop an "issue"...

They keep coming at me from different directions; from the Internet, from the TV: People claiming to be direct victims, or civillian activists, or ad-hoc experts, telling us about the alarming things they've been seeing... and then waving their ignorance about the subject around like it's some kind of badge of their humanity that I'm supposed to sympathize with.

Or worse, the investigative journalists who put 'em on the screen, but think that if they go beyond cloying emotional appeals and show them talking about the details that we will be confused or uninterested.

I want to sympathize with those people; they have some very very important things to say that no one else is going to say. But all I can think of is "I googled about this for 5 minutes and learned more about this than you appear to have ever learned despite your claim of being involved". I guess I've been reading Slashdot for too long.