Blogger Traffic Jam Implies Thinking!

It has been impossible to get on any of the most popular blog sites on this Election Day. Either there has been unprecedented web traffic to these sites as seekers of unfiltered information seek news at its source, or there has been a coordinated attack on the blog sites by some sinister force. (The latter idea sounds just a bit too fantastic to me.)

This furthers the notion that we must examine the "old model" of the way we view the world. An increasing number of people are turning to sources of unfiltered news, for one and only one reason. They think!

They believe that they can sort through raw information to extract better news than they can get by watching/reading the twisted and strained quasi-news sound-bites that are delivered by the main-stream media (MSM for those new to blogging). They think, therefore they trust their own minds more than they trust the media's talking heads.

A thinking electorate is bad for the MSM. It is bad for the political class that has reduced its arguments to cute phrases ("the right to choose"). A thinking electorate will continue to demand more raw information and rely less on the stuff that fills our airwaves.

I am so happy that the wildest dreams of the bloggers have been exceeded. "More Bandwidth!" What a rallying cry for the thinking generation!