silent_rock's Journal: unlikely conscience

Friday evening before Spring Break. Not much action around here.

From nofungusamongus's linked article:
There's something about the Internet that encourages us to spill our guts, often in rather outrageous ways. Psychologists have noticed for years that going online seems to have a catalytic effect on people's personalities. The most quiet and reserved people may become deranged loudmouths when they sit behind the keyboard, staying up until dawn and conducting angry debates on discussion boards with total strangers.

The article brings up the point that the internet doesn't really let you forget things. In slightly more elegnant terms: With its unforgiving machine memory, the Internet might turn out to be the unlikely conscience of the world.

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He stood up, sick in the stomach and wanting desperately to smash his way out of the dishonest, warped, and uncompromising world in which defeated people like his mother and the Ashidas walked their perilous tightropes and could not and would not look about them for having to keep their eyes fastened to the taut, thin support.
John Okada, No-No Boy

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[loopperu]

i prefer it when you spill your guts, rather than these long quotes that tell me nothing about your deeper personality i never see in person.

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[silent_rock]

The quotes serve their purpose if you edit them, e.g. "silent_rock stood up, sick in the stomach and wanting desperately to smash [her] way out of the dishonest, warped, and uncompromising world..."