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Lane Lynch's avatar

similar line of thought: IRL pre-internet identity is socially negotiated--it required other people, some context in a community. You were a doctor, a brick mason, a mother because there were actual things that you did with other people involved. Internet allowed you to declare identity. I AM a woman, my avatar is a woman, everyone else in the fake digital community agrees because my avatar is all they see, why disagree? I think this is major contribution to current mass insanity--people raised with the internet are accustomed to declaring an identity and online there needn't be any pushback. Now people DECLARE their pronouns, their IRL identity. The "problem" is reality/meat space/IRL pushes back; people go insane because they repress offline existence. Synthetic Autism is a great term btw

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Crusader Bashir's avatar

To become closer to God, you have to die to yourself

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