saint aini's hoity toity thread reminding us n00bs that you're nobody till somebody loves you on the internets has inspired me.
Doubtless many of you have read the Hitchhiker's Guide series, and some may remember the Total Perspective Vortex, an ingenious torture device which completely annihilates a person's ego by showing them their place in the universe as a whole, from a god's-eye view.
I wonder, would that be such a terrible--or even painful--thing?
IMO being a nobody comes as a great relief--it makes the burden of things like productivity so much lighter, makes you free to create art.
The real tragedy of human life is not the transience of it, so much as the all too common inability to consider anything outside the confines of good days, bad days and assumptions.
Being no one means you are empowered to create meaning, because no one will read your whiny LiveJournal posts.
Thoughts?
Doubtless many of you have read the Hitchhiker's Guide series, and some may remember the Total Perspective Vortex, an ingenious torture device which completely annihilates a person's ego by showing them their place in the universe as a whole, from a god's-eye view.
I wonder, would that be such a terrible--or even painful--thing?
IMO being a nobody comes as a great relief--it makes the burden of things like productivity so much lighter, makes you free to create art.
The real tragedy of human life is not the transience of it, so much as the all too common inability to consider anything outside the confines of good days, bad days and assumptions.
Being no one means you are empowered to create meaning, because no one will read your whiny LiveJournal posts.
Thoughts?