• Is it anarchy?

Here's the most newsworthy sentence you'll ever read: I am a “Redditor” now. A Redditist. In /r/OCPoetry, I've found satisfaction... and subsequent addiction. Because I am this way, you may even expect me to reference something like “…live long enough to see yourself become the… [Reddit user,]” but I am not actually of that kin. A weekend guest in their house, at most.

Is Reddit relevant? Enough for you to sympathize with my want to abstractly understand the culture, at the least. Ideologically, I always thought it'd finally display to the masses the true destructive habits of the democratic construct. Real familiarity hasn't destroyed my hope, necessarily, but I think a great number of believers would consider democracy to be a fresh idea. You're damned right, my words are weighted and patronizing; this is an editorial minefield.

In the language of governance, I left my voluntaryism for "decency" (read: moderate liberalism) long ego. For me, dissent is not appropriate or rewarding, but my only genuine political opining is (technically) a bit radical, so there is none, if everything is done correctly.

That said...

My argument has been public for years in audio and social media, so here's as concise 'a' rundown as I can muster:

If human variety is essential to the progression of the species (I believe it is,) and diversity can be plotted by infinitely many bell-curved (by populace) spectrums (I believe it can,) than majority rule, by nature, works against human progression by averaging power away from the extremities of thought and sentiment.

So, the more average (less contentious) your written content is, the more upvotes it will receive; the more likely it is to be seen. The picture of Reddit I'd had for its whole existence was compiled from secondhand accounts of... trash, really. In my orbit, mention of its name can almost always elicit a scoff or sigh. Often, there have been brief, disgusted abstracts of brash right-ish acts. Yes, we all must make a point of disgust. That silly right; They're All Goobers.

I feel you. I am a straight white man, writing about Reddit on my own website. Christ. I am (technically) blogging about Reddit. And using "I feel you."

But, if I am any sort of resource to you, I have an important discovery to share.

First, you need to know: the vast majority of poetry is not good. Contemporary and clerical; ancient and edgy... most works you'll encounter are relatively worthless.

What is "not good?" Very little, actually. There are only two criteria I could possibly judge such a liberated medium:

• Cliché - Does it need to be said? Or is it said absentmindedly, out of habit.
• Truth - Vague, I know. Resonance is my pet favorite indicator. Basically, is the work communicating something, or is it just a sterile spout of wordplay? Or, is it the arrangement itself that is communicative?

Tumblr - the most superficial platform of sharing poetry by far - is the number one place to find a whole bunch of bullshit (by these standards of measure, anyway.)

“There are times I want to hate you. The feeling is there, bottled up inside of me, but whenever I try to direct it at you, it fizzles out. I hate that you don’t love me. I hate that this is impossible. I hate that you’ll never know and that you can hurt me without even trying. But I don’t hate you. I only know how to love you. And god I love you.”

While this piece may in fact contain truth, its bombardment of cliché prevents me from being able to see it. Not that it is inherently less worthwhile than ANYTHING else; it is simply not effective verse.

Ugh. It's very difficult to say such a thing. I write this sort of stuff, by the way. I just don't consider it useful. Here's one more:

“I love you so much and I don’t tell you enough

Just how much I want to spend forever with you