Posted by BBob on June 5, 2000, at 14:07:11
In reply to Re: boBB, I'm sorry...., posted by CarolAnn on June 5, 2000, at 10:17:53
CarolAnn,
I understand. It hurts me that people are so separated, so lacking of intimacy and so longing for connection that we seek freindship by staring into these networked cathode-ray tubes. If we were close enough to be human, flesh and blood friends, chances are I would gladly embrace your friendship.
It might help you to know that an interview technique National Public Radio personnel like to boast among themselves of using is the "just between you and me" line when the interview is obviously on the record. It creates a sense of intimacy when in fact, the information is available for the whole world to share.
I was reffering to scorn toward me more in reference to the behavior of the group. SimpleSue shares a word of intimacy with Joe Jock. But she refuses to "put out" for Joe Jock, and calls him a creep to stop his persistant and unwanted advances.
The next day at school word goes around that Simple Sue called popular Joe Jock a creep (no-one asks Simple Sue what happened) and all the popular kids and their wanna-be followers start calling Sue "pscyho." The more articulate popular kids reinforce the analysis, explaining that Sue acts that way because she is "bipolar." Sue spends the rest of her school career wearing a label, and boBB is barred from the Professor's discussion. Sort of.
I appreciate your interest. My reply was as honest as it gets. I was perhaps blunt, but I trust you will find people in your everyday off-line life who need your concern. I wasn't asking you to change the whole world. I was just trying to encourage you to direct your sincere concern toward someone who needs it in a setting where the concern can bear genuine fruit. For my part, I am still holding out hope that will be the product of this difficult investment of my time in this discussion.
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