Congratulations, Fellow People Of The Year!

Congrats, bloggin' friends! You are the Person of The Year, according to Time Magazine!

In perhaps their biggest cop-out ever, Time has decided not to pick one great person, but instead has taken the route of PC generalization: Everybody is great.

From Time(red type mine):

To be sure, there are individuals we could blame for the many painful and disturbing things that happened in 2006. (What, nothing great happened?) The conflict in Iraq only got bloodier and more entrenched. A vicious skirmish erupted between Israel and Lebanon. (Those vicious Israelis, and poor, poor Muslims...) A war dragged on in Sudan. (I'm shocked they even bothered to mention Darfur, even in a passing, non-judgmental to Muslims fashion.) A tin-pot dictator in North Korea got the bomb (I guess that makes him a little more worrisome than a "tin pot dictator."), and the president of Iran wants to go nuclear too. Meanwhile nobody fixed global warming (Oh, dear lawrd, no one heeded Al Gore's warnings, and now we're all gonna die. We in the West are so cruel to the environment. Boo-hoo. Let's not mention the type of polluting that third-world countries do...), and Sony didn't make enough PlayStation3s. Chortle. Snort. How droll.

But fear not, simpletons... Time has vindicated you:

But look at 2006 through a different lens and you'll see another story, one that isn't about conflict or great men. It's a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. (Oooh. Sounds grandiose, don't you think?)It's about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people's network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It's about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.

So let me get this straight... This load of utopianist dross is somehow going to change the world and make it a fantastic place? I post a few goofy videos on YouTube, and suddenly I've "changed the world" and helped my fellow man out of the goodness of my heart? I edit Wikipedia, and I've added to the vast wealth of mankind's knowledge?

Aren't you folks the same sort of liberal people who look down their noses with utter derisement at the blogging community? But I thought I was helping to shape the cosmic compendium of community knowledge...

Let's not get carried away, Time. Sure, the internet is fun, and can be used to exchange information and ideas... As long as you aren't in a country run by a "tin-pot dictator" who limits access through poverty and through outright censorship.

Try Googling whatever you want to in China, or Iran. You won't get very far. Which brings us back to the matter at hand... THE REAL WORLD.

My advice to you, Time: Stick to picking out the real movers and shakers in the world. I may not always agree with you, but at least you haven't wasted my time (heh) with some load of spineless, feel-good tripe.