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Miles Klee in The Awl

Mar 15, 2008

7: Choose Your Own Adventure: The Blog Post

Okay. Well. The content is certainly not as insane as the link/title made it sound. In fact, it seems the author exaggerated and distorted and dressed up what he was actually talking about just to drive traffic. The topic is a little… boring, really…

Miles Klee in The Awl

Mar 15, 2008

3: Choose Your Own Adventure: The Blog Post

You take in the first few sentences and realize the author is making a counterintuitive argument that clashes with one of your long-held but not-that-vivid beliefs. What’s more, it’s fairly convincing, or at least worth pondering. Through data and prose…

Miles Klee in The Awl

Mar 15, 2008

4: Choose Your Own Adventure: The Blog Post

Who are you kidding? You can’t resist bait this tempting. You need to know at least enough to pretend you know what this is all about. You admit to yourself that the author, not unlike a poisonous spider, has ensnared a victim that struggles in vain.

Miles Klee in The Awl

Mar 15, 2008

2: Choose Your Own Adventure: The Blog Post

Well, it’s just as you suspected. The author, while perhaps informed or diligent, is advancing an argument so wrongheaded as to be a sign of general bad health. The examples have already been countered somewhere, surely, and no amount of levelheaded…

Miles Klee in The Awl

Mar 15, 2008

5: Choose Your Own Adventure: The Blog Post

This should shut him up, you think to yourself as you copy-paste an umlaut from Wikipedia onto the word “naïve.” And you were right. The guy never wrote anything on the Internet again.

The End…. OR IS IT?

It’s like Miles Klee is inside your cubicle, right?

Miles Klee in The Awl

Mar 15, 2008

8: Choose Your Own Adventure: The Blog Post

You throw yourself back into a project with a willed vigor that seeps across the rest of the week, and beyond into the months and years. You surf the web now and then, but only during lunch, which you take at your desk. Your work ethic eventually yields…

Miles Klee in The Awl

Mar 15, 2008

9: Choose Your Own Adventure: The Blog Post

You finish reading the entire post through the same bleak fog that attends your actual work. Like a flagellant after a holy cleansing, you are filled with a sense of morbid accomplishment and false pride. Later, you will misquote this text, fudge a few…

Miles Klee in The Awl

Mar 15, 2008

10: Choose Your Own Adventure: The Blog Post

Niiiiiiiiiice.

The End.

Miles Klee still likes the Internet though.

Miles Klee in The Awl

Mar 15, 2008

6: Choose Your Own Adventure: The Blog Post

That’s that. There’s no refuting an argument this exhaustive and passionate. You were wrong and, in time, you will grow to accept your mistake. But what’s this? The author concludes the post by linking to a related piece by a peer. Apparently she writes…