I am under no illusion that not many people read my blog: It is mainly visited by a few of my friends and family members who know about it, and a few people I’ve met out in London who I have shown it to. That’s fine by me: to me, blogging is about recording my thoughts and experiences for posterity, rather than seeking attention. I feel it is important that I do my bit to convey to the world what life is like for a man with cerebral palsy. The problem is, more and more people these days seem to be using the internet to attract attention and entice people to their blog, YouTube channel or whatever. This means that their output is becoming more deranged and extreme. Earlier on the breakfast news for example, there was an item about the many online conspiracy theories which sprang up after a teenager went missing: people began making up all kinds of baseless, nonsensical stories about the child just so that other people read what they said. Something similar is happening with regard to the ‘flat Earth’ phenomenon, with people now spouting all kinds of preposterous, idiotic nonsense just to attract viewers. The people who create this shyte don’t care how wrong they may be, as long as they get attention. The result, I worry, is the steady reduction of the standard of online public discourse into a quagmire of general stupidity. Now that so many people have access to the web and can articulate their thoughts and opinions to virtually everyone else, we all seem to be feeling a desperate urge to be the centre of attention. For my part though, I’ll just continue spouting inane nonsense on here as I always have, trying not to get too provocative.