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rmI think I get the most emotionally caught up in my status BS in a bad way when my "very fictional life," as I call it isn't taken seriously.
More specifically, how many of us pay lip service to the idea of "chosen family" or "created family" but still don't really treat such connections as seriously as biological or legal connections? One could argue there are logistically valid reasons for that, but is life really lived on logistics? I suppose this is iterations #904539054 of my complaint about the phrase of "just friends." I realize, of course, what it's supposed to mean, but it always sounds like an oxymoron to me, how can you be calling someone a friend and neglible at the same time?
I go do stuff now before I get cranky.
Oh, speaking of cranky -- if you're following the Gather dramarama -- apparently homosexual marriage will make your health insurance rates go up.
Tomorrow's SFF column that I won't even work on until tomorrow night is going to be "Does Cyberpunk Still Matter?"
More specifically, how many of us pay lip service to the idea of "chosen family" or "created family" but still don't really treat such connections as seriously as biological or legal connections? One could argue there are logistically valid reasons for that, but is life really lived on logistics? I suppose this is iterations #904539054 of my complaint about the phrase of "just friends." I realize, of course, what it's supposed to mean, but it always sounds like an oxymoron to me, how can you be calling someone a friend and neglible at the same time?
I go do stuff now before I get cranky.
Oh, speaking of cranky -- if you're following the Gather dramarama -- apparently homosexual marriage will make your health insurance rates go up.
Tomorrow's SFF column that I won't even work on until tomorrow night is going to be "Does Cyberpunk Still Matter?"
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Date: 2007-04-04 07:18 pm (UTC)For me, I take the chosen family / created family seriously as it's the only family I really have. What bothers me is when people don't / refuse to see it that way and assume alterior motives that aren't there.
I think cyberpunk does still matter, it just has to go through the popularity wringer and emerge once again as what it was meant to be prior to being used as a top 40 moneymaker. I've watched too many people out here add the term ' cyber ' to their chosen scene name , put on some goggles, grab a glow stick and go on their merry way without any more tech in them than your average ipod implant victim.
Take SecondLife for example. PResenting us with the nearest thing to Snowcrash we will see for a while, it was initially overrun with people riding motorcycles and brandishing swords but in the end this all gave way to virtual brothels and casinos. Sooner or later the mainstream will get their rocks off and move on to the next meme. The people who have read Phillip K. Dick cover to cover will crawl back out and turn the digital landscape back into the vision of the mid 80's under the blankets with the flashlight book readers.
IMHO, naturally.