You know that you are horribly bored right now, don't you? :) It's probably raining there too. Usually is when people start thinking about masks.
Of course people present different facets at different times! Come on! Would you really prefer to live in a world where everyone was a card-board cutout? People, for the most, are litle more than the sum of their parts. The trick is of course is that there is a hell of a lot of those damn parts - family, friends, what you ate for breakfast, the first book you ever read, the weather. It used to fascinate me when I was little, how every person is basically a center of his/her own universe. Every passerby has his own circle of friends, his own family, his own web and every one of his friends and every one of their friends.. and so on and so on. And every day they are influenced and they influence literally thousands of people by the most miniscule of actions. A guy drives 30 in a 50 zone, enraging the driver behind him to the point of blind rage which erupts against the innocent kitchen cabinet upon the latter's arrival at home, which changes the day for the repair man, which pisses of his wife, which gets back on the son who makes the teacher miserable the next day... endless. By the end of the week the whole world is pissed off because some scmuck couldn't drive like a normal human being.
Anyhooo... The masks. The ever-so-elusive point :-) They are not masks. They are facets. Sides. And you show what is appropriate at the moment. You wouldn't wear an evening gown to the pub crawl, right? But there are plenty of people who are found in both such situations. I wouldn't really worrying about losing 'oneself.' One of the most popular themes in philosophy and one i find utterly.. bogus:) Lose yourself behind a mask? The other word for it is growing. Growing up. Growing different. Evolving. Pick one. And I would truly fear the day if you do decide to become the 'same' every day and for every one. It's an often belabored point as to how the net allows a person to build the image they desire. True to a pointIi suppose. At a certain point the real person usually comes through. Not their 'masks', or 'sides', I mean I doubt anyone of your friends defines you as "Judget' or as the 'Fanficcer'.' And sure, some or most of them may be completely unaware of what one of those. because that's not what they base their assosiation with people on. "Who you are" vs. "what you are", I think. And that is very hard to mask. Or lose. Exceptions are there of course. Family for example. One place where i think a person is definately defined as the 'daughter' / 'son.' But hey, find me a more illogical institution than family?
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Masks, schmasks:)
Date: 2001-05-22 06:07 pm (UTC)Of course people present different facets at different times! Come on! Would you really prefer to live in a world where everyone was a card-board cutout? People, for the most, are litle more than the sum of their parts. The trick is of course is that there is a hell of a lot of those damn parts - family, friends, what you ate for breakfast, the first book you ever read, the weather. It used to fascinate me when I was little, how every person is basically a center of his/her own universe. Every passerby has his own circle of friends, his own family, his own web and every one of his friends and every one of their friends.. and so on and so on. And every day they are influenced and they influence literally thousands of people by the most miniscule of actions. A guy drives 30 in a 50 zone, enraging the driver behind him to the point of blind rage which erupts against the innocent kitchen cabinet upon the latter's arrival at home, which changes the day for the repair man, which pisses of his wife, which gets back on the son who makes the teacher miserable the next day... endless. By the end of the week the whole world is pissed off because some scmuck couldn't drive like a normal human being.
Anyhooo... The masks. The ever-so-elusive point :-) They are not masks. They are facets. Sides. And you show what is appropriate at the moment. You wouldn't wear an evening gown to the pub crawl, right? But there are plenty of people who are found in both such situations. I wouldn't really worrying about losing 'oneself.' One of the most popular themes in philosophy and one i find utterly.. bogus:) Lose yourself behind a mask? The other word for it is growing. Growing up. Growing different. Evolving. Pick one. And I would truly fear the day if you do decide to become the 'same' every day and for every one. It's an often belabored point as to how the net allows a person to build the image they desire. True to a pointIi suppose. At a certain point the real person usually comes through. Not their 'masks', or 'sides', I mean I doubt anyone of your friends defines you as "Judget' or as the 'Fanficcer'.' And sure, some or most of them may be completely unaware of what one of those. because that's not what they base their assosiation with people on. "Who you are" vs. "what you are", I think. And that is very hard to mask. Or lose. Exceptions are there of course. Family for example. One place where i think a person is definately defined as the 'daughter' / 'son.'
But hey, find me a more illogical institution than family?