Daily Inspiration Quote by Roger Ebert

Ebert’s “kind of glad” is doing sly work: it softens what’s actually a pretty radical endorsement of chaos. Coming from a critic who spent his life inside gatekept institutions (newspapers, studios, awards circuits), the line reads less like a tech-utopian cheer and more like a veteran’s relief that the bouncers don’t control the door anymore. “Sort of totally” is classic Ebert cadence - conversational, wry, deliberately imprecise - signaling he knows “anarchy” is messy, but he prefers that mess to a neatly managed culture.

The intent isn’t to romanticize trolls or misinformation; it’s to defend the web as a space where authority is negotiable. Ebert understood criticism as a public argument, not a priesthood. An anarchic internet means the old hierarchy of taste can be challenged: a kid with a blog can outwrite a columnist, a niche film can find its people without studio permission, a consensus can be formed in comment sections and forums rather than boardrooms.

Subtext: he’s picking sides in a long-running fight about who gets to speak. Critics are supposed to be arbiters; Ebert is admitting that arbitration is suspect, and that he’d rather compete in a noisy marketplace of voices than sit atop a dwindling pedestal.

Context matters: Ebert was an early adopter online and later wrote through illness, using the internet’s distribution and immediacy to keep his voice present. For him, “anarchic” wasn’t a theory. It was infrastructure - a guarantee that culture stays porous, and that no single institution gets the final cut.