Added another project to the to-do list. Need to come up with a new name for the act of being internet lazy. You know what I’m talking about. That moment where you are too lazy to look something up online even though a whole world of information, including the answer you seek, is literally at your fingertips. It’s even more pathetic now that the average smartphone is more
powerful than the average PC from 10 years ago. We’ve all experienced this phenomenon. You’re watching a football game at a bar and an intoxicated Packers fan boasts about how awesome Aaron Rogers is for only being in the league for four years. You’re watching a movie with your significant other who swears that Kirsten Dunst was the actress in Legally Blonde. There’s no f’n-way Robert Downey, Jr. was one of the bullies in Weird Science. Really? Anyway, you get the point. Having a question about something but not looking it up is my generation’s equivalent of someone in the ‘80s being too lazy to get up to change the channel on the TV even though an awful show was on air. Like AfterMASH. Always one to recognize an opportunity (afterall, someone got rich inventing the remote control), I’m thinking about starting a foundation that addresses “internet lazy.” This organization would do some baseline research that finds that approximately, let’s say 37%, of all arguments and fights are the result of disagreeing over something factual. As the Executive Director of this organization, I would seek government grants and donor funds for the creation of campaigns that encourage people to look things up rather than arguing. By reducing arguments and fights, I’d thereby reduce requests for police intervention and ambulance calls, overcrowding of courtrooms and prisons, drive down divorce filings, and so on. All by driving that 37% down through my anti-[insert “fight” internet lazy term here] organization. Sounds crazy. But, if you could reduce all of those elements, and prove it -- you would save local and state governments a lot of money. You might think it’s a waste of time and money. Well, there are crazier organizations out there. So, join me, and help make the world a better place. Also, please feel free to submit ideas for the official term for “internet lazy.” Maybe, if I select your name, you'll find a sweet Creative Director position waiting for you within my powerful, new NGO.
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