Whatever happened to MySpace?
Oh, how the mighty MySpace has fallen.
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away”.
Neo:
The poetry could well be describing the figure in the commentary before.
Any accomplishments…long since disappeared beneath the sands.
OT, but since you posted “Ozymandias” I have to ask whether you’d read Iowahawk’s recent satire entitled “Weinermandius”?
On xkcd’s map of online communities, one of the landmarks in the Charred Wasteland of Abandoned Social Networks (left side, scroll down slightly) is, indeed, “Ozymandias, Friend of Friends.”
My man Fred might agree:
Therefore, since the world has still
Much good, but much less good than ill,
And while the sun and moon endure
Luck’s a chance, but trouble’s sure,
I’d face it as a wise man would,
And train for ill and not for good.
Alpheus:
That is a very cool map. I was a bit stunned (and frightened) to discover how small the “blogosphere” is. And the conservative blogosphere is just a small subset of that.
We have our work cut out for us.
Ozymandias is the poetic version of Hitler in the Bunker.
The items on Myspace and Ozymandias reminded me of all the empty space in this life once occupied by people and events which seemed to be important.
Makes me think of Templar Castles in the Levant.