This page may look like a home-grown page of cat pictures. It
may look like that, but in actual fact it's a political statement.
Specifically, it is a statement about the content on the internet
and those who supply it.
One of the many complaints about the internet is that it is 90% crap, filled up with people's lame homepages blathering about absolutely nothing and populated with lame pictures of their cats. It is like so much corn on the buffet table of life. Sure, everyone likes a little corn, but not so much that you are drowning in it.
These lame pictures of people's cats get in the way of those who are searching the web for real, actual, useful content -- like how to defeat virus scanners, device driver information for BSD, or hot naked watermelon sex. How dare they? I have an urgent, burning need for hot naked watermelon pornography!
Well, suck it up. This is in fact what the world wide web is all about: giving the average loser (in this case me) a soap box from which I can proclaim any half-assed (or indeed, a whole-assed) thing as The Whole Unassailable Truth. Especially if I'm full of... let's call it political rhetoric. And if you disagree -- well, there's an email address somewhere around here, or you could put up your own web site telling the indifferent world how wrong I am. Or you could just splutter and foam and then get on with your life. Or, failing any of that, I can show you cat pictures instead. You are lucky -- I choose to do both.
See, the main problem is that the average person out there is living an average life, and has nothing important, useful, or indeed intelligible, to say -- and he quite probably lacks the literary skills to successfully communicate those meaningless thoughts to the world at large. Expecting great prose from such a person is like expecting a NHL hockey fan to support the refs calling the rules as written in the rule book.
This average person is not sitting at his keyboard while you sleep, pounding in the next great profound thought that will shake the world to its foundations any more than you are. The world has very solid foundations, and not even the "established" media will be making anything more than noises of self importance any time soon. Average people have average cares -- their families, their homes, their jobs, where their next meal is going to come from, and their cats.
What you need to wake up to is the fact that there is a second side to these pages.
You may not like it, but you are a party to these pages you label as being stupid . It takes two to tango: some loser like me to put up a page like this, and someone like you to click on some link which is pointing at it. And holding the page author responsible for the actions of your mouse clicking is something which you can't rationally do.
Even a rudimentary examination of this page in a search engine window should immediately show you that it has absolutely nothing to do with anything of substance -- if you clicked on it, you are bored, surfing, genuinely interested in my cats or what I have to say. Thinking that this page will satisfy your watermelon fetish is just stupid. If a stupid page of cat pictures is not likely to interest you, then don't click on the link pointing at it. And definitely don't complain about it if you do end up on such a page -- lets face it, such a page is not likely to pop up obnoxious IBM porno ads, is it? We are not exactly irreversibly corrupting children here.
Things could definitely be worse. All in all, it's not a terrible thing to have a web filled with pictures of cats who have whiskers from other cats stuck in their heads, is it?