This Is Not A Web Page

It's not. Does it look like one to you? Look closer.

If this were a Web page, wouldn't it be trying to sell you something ? Or trying to tell you all sorts of boring and idiosyncratic things about its creators? Or at least trying to convince you to adopt their thoughts and prejudices as your very own?

Wouldn't there be a plethora of colorful graphics, produced by some arcane ray-tracing program, labored over in the wee hours by people whose time would be better spent getting a life? Wouldn't it use its appearance in a vain attempt to convince you that its message is important, or at least as reliable as society's most trusted institutions?

But it's not doing that, is it? Is it?

And yet you read on, as if expecting some hidden meaning, some surprising insight, to emerge. Perhaps you think it is a joke, a ruse, lulling you into quiet boredom with its denials. Perhaps you think there is a puzzle here to be solved, some infinitely clever enigma created just for you. How droll. Perhaps you have already spent too many hours of your life in the Web, and are afraid to admit that you are trapped in its banalities. And so you read on.

Give up. There is nothing here for you. Is there?