I can’t fathom this. While hunting down attributions for Kojak’s spurious posts, I discovered that his January 16th entry appears on many, many sites, each claiming authorship. Is that what the Internet is, a drone of self-same automatons all chanting the same canticle? Perhaps dozens saw the words and each found them a perfect expression of his own feelings, and so claimed them for his own. But then, why would so many people have exactly the same thoughts about the same thing?
I read years ago that advertising agencies had succeeded in sorting all of humanity into a few dozen types, but were unwilling to publish their research. A pity. I knew I wasn’t one in a million, but I at least wanted to be one in a hundred twenty-thousand. Even Nineveh would have had me’s by the bushel.
To my relief, I’ve yet to run into my double on the Internet. But I do fear self-plagiarism; toss a Bible reference, a homosexuality gag, a science-fiction or 80’s name-check and a bit of Intelligent Design into a blender and you’ve got yourself a nice, smooth, bland Neko Bijin-brand blog entry. I’d love to expand my horizons, but it’s probably too late for me. Gird thyself for a reprise of my pet ideas ad infinitum or unsubscribe post-haste.
