In accordance to my previous post, I happened to find the chance to actually read Andrew’s say on the matter. Intrigued on how Postmortem of Culture/Post Gangrene works and applies to the article, Mike got interested by the matter of how I used the term, and so the discussion in IRC ensued with the topic at hand.
Mike: I don’t understand the Post Gangrene.
It is the deterioration of posts in any way, be it quality, style, even the topic and post body. For example, style is lost when pertaining to a topic, topic is lost when trying to use a good style, etc. This leads to an article/post not being read since it does not hit a certain criterion readers find in the post/article, thus the “gangrene”, or the soon-to-be-imminent “postmortem”. Posts not being read results to a blog not being read, therefore from the post, the gangrene “spreads” throughout the blog body itself, with the blogger either fighting back, or getting ultimately owned, defining the “postmortem” itself on the latter. But of course, if you tend to be random at most times, or have a blogplace that doesn’t necessarily have qualifications, restrictions, or such, then this one doesn’t apply to you. And if you do have qualifications or restrictions, it’s not like you’ll have to encounter such as often as drama sparks in 4chan. That’s why even though I use a good foray of words, I tend to go simple at the most essential of topics, so people would understand, at the very least hopefully, what I’m trying to say.
Mike: I don’t know, I think I’m concise. But I don’t dumb down what I write, I think.
I do dumb down when I need to inject humor. However, humor doesn’t always have the audience laughing, and can sometimes be offensive. See, that’s a problem with freedom of speech: You can tend to hit someone with words, and hurt them, even if you didn’t intend to. And if you do intend to, there’s no other abusive way to do so than in your own turf. That’s how sensitive man is. Or more precisely, that’s how mass media works at the moment.
Beauty of the article isn’t defined solely by the words. That’s where “read between the lines” apply.
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