you bring up a good point. i feel exactly the same way. i hate talking to store clerks and to the beuracracy.
part of the problem has to do with my accent. it makes me feel inferior or something because some people probably look at it as a speech deficiency.
on the net however, nobody has to know that i have an accent. it gives me the freedom to think whatever i want and to not have to feel self-apprehending all the time. it is also very empowering because i somehow feel that my ideas are communicated as i want them. on the net, the "censoring" that goes on inside my brain during a real-time conversation, is disabled
but i wonder if there is a catch to it. aren't we running away from virginia wolf when we hide behind computer screens?
when i come out into the "world" after a week or so of anti-social behavior i will feel a sense of gratification and communicating with real people will be fun again. but maybe the good vibrations just come from having the freedom to chose what i want to do..i don't know..
in childhood's end, a.c.clarke came really close to depicting the aliens as i had always imagined them: detached entities. i wish he had kept them disembodied until the end of the book instead of revealing their physical properties to us. we -- humans, i think, are excessively concerned with the physical, the body. the u.f.o. enthusiasts are impatiently awaiting the arrival of the silvery space ship fleet over the manhattan sky-line. in giving the aliens physical attributes, a.c.clarke falls into the pitfall..
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i think my university is one of the best in this respect. on-campus students have 155mbit atm in their dorm rooms. cwrunet all the way. woohoo!! :)
my friend once said that good engineers become machines.
that totally fits into my worldview...running along the lines of: the poor get poorer, the rich richer, etc, etc. the coders become computers...
you bring up a good point. i feel exactly the same way. i hate talking to store clerks and to the beuracracy.
part of the problem has to do with my accent. it makes me feel inferior or something because some people probably look at it as a speech deficiency.
on the net however, nobody has to know that i have an accent. it gives me the freedom to think whatever i want and to not have to feel self-apprehending all the time. it is also very empowering because i somehow feel that my ideas are communicated as i want them. on the net, the "censoring" that goes on inside my brain during a real-time conversation, is disabled
but i wonder if there is a catch to it. aren't we running away from virginia wolf when we hide behind computer screens?
when i come out into the "world" after a week or so of anti-social behavior i will feel a sense of gratification and communicating with real people will be fun again. but maybe the good vibrations just come from having the freedom to chose what i want to do..i don't know..
in childhood's end, a.c.clarke came really close to depicting the aliens as i had always imagined them: detached entities. i wish he had kept them disembodied until the end of the book instead of revealing their physical properties to us. we -- humans, i think, are excessively concerned with the physical, the body. the u.f.o. enthusiasts are impatiently awaiting the arrival of the silvery space ship fleet over the manhattan sky-line. in giving the aliens physical attributes, a.c.clarke falls into the pitfall..