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May 27, 2004

human condition?

I got this email from Peter at Mildew Hall:

Heyup Mr. Grumpy!

I've noticed that there seems to be a disturbing trend in grumpy blogs - is this part of a new determination that people will no longer be afraid to speak their mind ? If so, I'm all for it!

Peter
First of all, I have to say, "Whoa". This is because someone besides Belinda and me are reading this. Who knew?

Secondly, I had no idea that there was a trend in grumpy blogging. So I decided to do some research. I did this google search and got a grumpy blog in Polish. Maybe grumpy means teenager in Polish, who knows. Blogwise returns these three blogs. A similar search on Blogarama yields exactly one hit, this very blog. Technorati gives me 132 posts in the last 7 days! Feedster returns 4979 posts!!! Whoa! Maybe there aren't many blogs dedicated to grumpiness and grumps, but everyone sure is talking about it! This is certainly not an exhaustive search, and I'm sure there are even more blogs out there discussing general grumpiness, crankiness, and grouchiness.

What I do know is this. People are pissed off. I'm certainly not the only one. Do we have a general level of unhappiness? Or is this just part of the human condition? Are we no longer shackled by Victorian-esque good manners and keeping our feelings to ourselves as Peter suggests? What really is going on here?

Personally, I write this blog to blow off steam. It's a great outlet and a great way for me to be tolerable to my loved ones. Since I've been writing it, I notice that people say things like, "Jeez, what crawled up his ass today??" a lot less. To avoid such things, I write and I vent. I imagine a lot of bloggers do so for similar reasons. Sort of a "dear diary" approach to dealing with being fucking pissed off.

But what about Peter's email, and the disturbing trend in grumpy blogging? Peter's been in the blogiverse a lot longer than I have, so if he says there is a trend, I'm apt to believe him. Are we all going through our lives pissed off more than not? Whats causing this? Chemtrails? George Bush? Terrorists? RFID? Anyone? Anyone?

posted by grumpy at 9:23 AM

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