“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”

They say all good things must come to an end. What about mediocre things? My personal theory is that the mediocre will always outlive the good by a sizeable margin. The evidence on this is vast and varied, but perhaps the most compelling is Exhibit A: the internet.

Great achievements are all well and good, but the internet's only interested if you've managed to supremely screw shit up. Cure for cancer? We don't want to hear it, Frink! Give us the illiterate; the desperate; the pathetic dregs of society, if you can find them. Does mediocrity come with age? I propose that yes, yes, it does. And now we come to the main point of this little rant – and principal evidence in my defence – Christmas.