AAARRRGH, my reality!

Flint · 09-03-2008, 05:04 PM

I was reading a dwellar laying into another dwellar with obscene profanities, and it didn't bother me. As an adult, I realize that sometimes you use that manner of speech (I myself curse like a sailor) in real life; then, if you are being honest on the internet, you'd use that same manner of speech, right?

But, actually, probably not. Because most places, I think, are probably moderated for "offensive" language, right? I mean, I came here because I had been on AG, which has no law and order whatsoever, and SteveBsjb told me there was another great unmoderated board over here.

But, is this the internet that most people get to experience, or are they living in an extension of the sanitized, politically correct world we all walk around in, with fake smiles and minty breath?

Is it possible that the internet could someday have the life regulated out of it? I had a flash-forward of us as old fogeys, telling the youth about how you used to be able to say anything you wanted on the internet. It rang true because I've heard this kind of thing before, about how "We just did it that way, and nobody thought anything about it, and nobody got hurt, but it ain't like that anymore."

Or have we turned a corner in our cultural evolution where the information in our heads has a conduit to flood outward upon the Earth and carve new pathways, eroding right through the stratified layers that were set down in the olden, unenlightened times? That doesn't ring true, because #1 we always think we are the modern, civilized, better people than we used to be and #2 we never are.

Man, I just can't get any work done today.

09-03-2008, 05:04 PM	#1
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	AAARRRGH, my reality! I was reading a dwellar laying into another dwellar with obscene profanities, and it didn't bother me. As an adult, I realize that sometimes you use that manner of speech (I myself curse like a sailor) in real life; then, if you are being honest on the internet, you'd use that same manner of speech, right? But, actually, probably not. Because most places, I think, are probably moderated for "offensive" language, right? I mean, I came here because I had been on AG, which has no law and order whatsoever, and SteveBsjb told me there was another great unmoderated board over here. But, is this the internet that most people get to experience, or are they living in an extension of the sanitized, politically correct world we all walk around in, with fake smiles and minty breath? Is it possible that the internet could someday have the life regulated out of it? I had a flash-forward of us as old fogeys, telling the youth about how you used to be able to say anything you wanted on the internet. It rang true because I've heard this kind of thing before, about how "We just did it that way, and nobody thought anything about it, and nobody got hurt, but it ain't like that anymore." Or have we turned a corner in our cultural evolution where the information in our heads has a conduit to flood outward upon the Earth and carve new pathways, eroding right through the stratified layers that were set down in the olden, unenlightened times? That doesn't ring true, because #1 we always think we are the modern, civilized, better people than we used to be and #2 we never are. Man, I just can't get any work done today. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

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