On Being a Nobody

[Brotep]

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?

[East Coast Hustle]

I agree in that I have chosen to draw a very hard line between pursuit of personal power and pursuit of recognition. I think that finding a way to attain the one while avoiding the other is a very powerful thing. Anonymity is not only a blessing but a very useful tool.

[Jenne]

I think anyone who's gotten any bad press whatsoever can attest to the fact it's better to NOT be notorious, let alone famous.  Even being well-known for the RIGHT reasons (and those vary from person to person/situation to situation) is a hardship on many levels.

[hooplala]

It should also be noted, lest anyone should mistakenly think otherwise, that Aini is a racist doofus.

[Cramulus]

 

[hooplala]

Quite true, but I wanted to make sure all new people were aware.

[Brotep]

So, this is because I'm black?

[hooplala]

So, this is because I'm black?

No.

[Brotep]

So, this is because I'm black?

No.

Are you sure?

[Elder Iptuous]

are there any notorious racism debate threads that i could be pointed to for enlightenment?

[Brotep]

are there any notorious racism debate threads that i could be pointed to for enlightenment?

God I hope so

[ternechto]

Around the age of about 22 I recalled less and less dreams waking each morning. So now, that comparitively microscopic consciousness that drifts about 16 hours each day doesn't carry over. My point of reference is no longer engaging strange reflections about why I decided to show up to grade school with no clothes on. If I were to recall such a dream tomorrow, I'd probably reflect more on, "Why am I reflecting on a dream where I showed up to grade school with no clothes on?"

Because the Total Experience Vortex doesn't exactly fit certain job descriptions. At some point my focus is shifted back to getting the job done. Creativity can be rythmic and keeps an effective beat when uninterrupted by some contemplative state of mind. The ego being a part of the whole, it's job performance goes up when there's a task at hand and no one else is allotted said task. Also, I'm pretty sure the universe would fall apart if we all continually revisited prepubescent neurosis' while awake. Or at the very least, we'd all choose to be exhibitionists.

Win win, so never mind.

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are there any notorious racism debate threads that i could be pointed to for enlightenment?

God I hope so

Enjoy:

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=14989.0

[Elder Iptuous]

are there any notorious racism debate threads that i could be pointed to for enlightenment?

God I hope so

Enjoy:
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=14989.0

Thanks.
It's interesting to see where ppl stand on that.
also. I take it Anton LaGay is the same person as Diseris in that thread?

[Brotep]

Enjoy:

http://www.principiadiscordia.com/forum/index.php?topic=14989.0

Oustanding work.

I take it Anton LaGay is the same person as Diseris in that thread?

What, because we both have Bruce Campbell as our avatar?  Bow before the might of the Bruce.