Amazon echo hal 900012/17/2022 ![]() ![]() Overweight, rotten teeth, MAGA hats, religious pendants, pink hair, piercings, tee shirts, tattoos you get the picture. Whether passively or by intention, people are walking broadcasting billboards. I venture to say this is going to boil down to the sensibilities of the eye of the beholder. Almost like a discursive version of flashing or indecent exposure, where rather than pull your dick out in front of a bunch of people, you give them a lurid, graphic account of the things you like to do with it instead.ĭon’t tell us about yourself. ![]() Because, the truth is that this kind of sharing represents the worst in public manners the sort in which a person imposes him or herself on unwilling others. As I said on another occasion, “Brandishing your failures and weaknesses and disorders will do nothing but invite contempt from others, though they may lie to you about it,” and it is beyond foolish to think that just because there is an official line promoting tolerance and acceptance, people actually practice it that once you’ve megaphoned all of your disorders and problems and told everyone the gross, weird things you like and do, down to the last queasy detail, people will still want to engage with you. I understand that we’ve incentivized this sort of “identify-and-overshare, ” which is why there’s so much of it, but the cost should never be far from one’s mind. But you will know that they “use” ‘quin/querk’ pronouns and like to dress up in a skunk costume and do a Number Two on a dinner plate. So, you may not know so-and-so from Adam have no idea how old so-and-so is or what so-and-so does for a living or whether so-and-so is American or French or whatever. Most common, however, and much lower on the inappropriateness-ladder, are those who like to exhibit their mental illnesses and disabilities or myriad “identities,” whether descriptively or via “emoticons” and “emojis.” This is how you wind up in a situation where people you don’t know think it’s essential, nevertheless, to tell you that they are queer autistic transgender neuro-divergent pansexual asexual bipolar borderline furry vegan “intersex” an “ally” to all the aforementioned etc. The worst in this regard are the public kinksters, by which I mean people who think it’s a good idea to display their sexual fetishes in public, regardless of who else might be there. ![]() And this is especially true of people whom you’ve never met and who have no interest in getting to know you. For the same reason one shouldn’t snoop, one also shouldn’t share: There are things that people just don’t want to know about you. My interest on this occasion, however, isn’t snooping but rather, sharing. So, why would anyone want to snoop around and find out about it? That is, we seek privacy, precisely so as not to display our less- or un-appealing selves to our friends and loved ones, and it is done out of kindness and consideration. Most are aware of these things about themselves and indulge their grosser, more off-putting predilections in private. People pick their noses and dig around in their crotches and eat disgusting concoctions and enjoy weird kinks and the like. And all of this is true of almost everyone, in a perfectly harmless way. ![]() And you will find out something that you don’t want to know. But the biggest, best, most important reason is this: You don’t want to know what you are going to find out. There are any number of reasons not to snoop. ![]()
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