What We Forget

[Shana A]

What We Forget
Posted March 27, 2009

http://radnichole.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/what-we-forget/

What we forget out here on the webz is that there are other people at the other end of these little paragraphs and sentences we write. What we forget is that a made-up identity is not an identity, it's a pose. What we forget is that without communication, touching and holding, the crying of real tears, the echoes of real laughter, the smiles, frowns, moues, moans, shouts, whispers, lies and truths of real human beings attached to them that we are all alone.

Currently there's a withering "hacker" attack ongoing at Bilerico. And I have no doubt who's doing it: some or a group of "transsexuals" who believe that their spite, their false outrage, their ability to remain hidden and to be the arbiters of what people hear and see, read and think is more important than the real people and real lives beyond the screens.

[imaz]

That is just so weird, what the hell is wrong with some people.

[NicholeW.]

Turns out it wasn't transsexuals at all. It was skinheads, but the blog post stays up. Whoever it was the point still seems to me a good one: that in all of the rancor and crap that revolves around our ideas and how the world is, the important things still are other human beings and the recognition of them.

Your question answered Imaz is they have lost, if they ever had, their ability to understand that their ideas don't trump anyone's humanity. Seems a common problem and seems to get worse with the Netz. But maybe not, we humans seem more than capable of imagining that ideas are more important than anything. How vain and decidedly moronic. 

Nichole

[imaz]

Have to agree with that.

Those ideas you talk about can appeal to the worst side of people and then what do we ultimately have; war, fascism, genocide and so on. Perhaps the only way is always to try to work to make the world a better place for us all at our own micro level.

Personally I believe that it's always best to examine one's options and take the one that will either have the most positive, or at least, the less negative outcome. Combine that with an attempt to network through friends, family and colleagues and to build up slowly from there. That's how I've come to understand life, I learnt it from an Indonesian girl who came from a society where such strategies are essential for survival if one is different.

[NicholeW.]

As even some of our more rabid transsexed people find out. They are necessary everywhere.

N~

[Genevieve Swann]

Some malicious idiot or idiots need to get a life.