After having defamiliarized myself with many of my old regular (read: compulsive) websites, I've rediscovered Metafilter, and have subsequently begun to remember why I originally became so disenchanted to begin with.

A public weblog/forum/discussion group for topics from current news events to almost anything else, Metafilter has a lot of potential, and does often prove interesting. The problem, I'm re-realizing is the lurking general political climate there. And it's not just idiots like ParisParamus always ready to jump in, waving flags and spewing shit. It's becoming increasingly clear that the general metafilter populous is either leaning comfortably to the right, or pleasantly middling out.

I guess it makes sense in a way. I mean, it seems like it consists mostly of that popular young office crowd, like the protagonists in Microserfs. It's the comfortable middle class. You know, the new young liberals. The people they make sitcoms about.

It's a room full of cynical watercooler nerds, who don't mind talking about the easy-to-discuss downsides to capitalism, and can enjoy/tolerate a well-placed anti-Bush quip, but who honestly believe that Iraq needs American soldiers right now to "get things rolling in the right direction".

Then again, if it weren't for Metafilter, I may never have found this.