“When you’re online all the time, you’ll run into certain people and things that seem to be beloved by all and you may not understand why, but they’ll have just short of no real-world influence at all offline. Just think of Ron Paul during the 2008 election. If it were up to the Internet, he would have been elected president of the galaxy. When it was up to voters, he wasn’t even elected president of the local 4H club. And little Ronny isn’t alone. The Internet has a habit of making heroes out of the weirdest people that, offline, are just footnotes, if that.” w/ photos
