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wolven7http://xkcd.com/137 If you've never read this famous strip from this comic, go ahead and do it now. I promise I'll wait.
Good. This is all in service of saying that, last night, I dreamed that i was convincing two women who were the same woman but "twinned" or doubled that it was okay to have sex with each other because it was really only having sex with themselves, and I asked them each what the other was thinking, and told them that they would still know, because they hadn't gone out into the world and had experiences which differed from each other, yet, and besides, they'd already started making out, so what was the big deal...
*deep breath* But I didn't want to write it down, because I've been applying for new jobs, lately, and this sent me into a weird "Do i friendslock this? Should I F-Lock my whole LiveJournal? Am I really going to do this 'Filters' thing? What about Allie Brosh? She's making a public spectacle out of herself on the internet, and doesn't hold back a single detail. Yeah, but she's literally devoted her life to Being On The Internet; it's how she makes her living. Is that how I want to make my living? Because that's the only way you can really be that unabashedly open, on the Tubes." See, I was seriously worried that I might not get a job because someone saw that I had sex dreams and wrote about them on the Internet.
Not just that, but all the other deviant shit I do, think, and am.
Well guess what, Damien? That ship has fucking sailed, buddy. There's all kinds of crazy shit about me on the intertubs, and you know what? I put a lot of it there. Almost none of it, however, speaks to my capacity to be a potential asset to a future work environment. But the world doesn't work like that, yet. We're still in a day and age when people use party pictures found on Facebook to justify firing someone, or when the authorities are monitoring Invitations to break up "large" public gatherings, under the pretense that they might become a "public nuisance." People have not yet gotten to the point where they are able or willing to differentiate between something that someone does on their own time and something that they do in the course of their work lives.
And, yes, there are overlaps, there are grey areas, places where what we do and who we claim to be are under the purview of public scrutiny, and that's understandable, but that is not daily life. Even so, say I'm a politician, right? Say i'm tasked with representing a majority of the people in my district, state, country, whatever, and it comes out that I've had an affair, or did a number of drugs, in my younger years, or really dig BDSM clubs. Ideally, this shouldn't be a concern of anyone, ever, as long as I'm not using my position to push my ideals onto the people. As long as I'm not saying that everyone must do these things that I like, then why the hell should anyone care, right?
But they do care. They care a lot, because, to some people, the simple ontological fact is that the existence of other points of view, preferences, desires, ways of viewing the world, is a threat, and it must be erradicated. In fact, I would go so far as to say that this is the case for everyone on a fundamental level, but that very many of us do a wonderful job of realising what the logical extent of either this view point or its antithesis would entail: Forced re-education and or constantly warring with those who disagree. It's not a pretty thought, and that's kind of what the world is like, already.
I want people to be judged on the merits of their on-the-job potential rather than the unconnected ephermera of the rest of their personal lives. I try not to discuss my employers, in my online life, and if I do, I certainly don't do it by name. I don't lie about time off I need, and then brag about it, on Facebook. I don't discuss the particulars of any illegal practices in which I may or may not engage, in public, and certainly not displayed to the world for god and everyone. But that's because those things are stupid. The very premliminary acts, themselves, are idiotic, and fall under the rubrick of "Shit We Don't Talk About At The Watercooler."
But the things that aren't illegal, the things that aren't lies or "pullling one over" on the boss, the things that aren't openly badmouthing employers, or discussing company business/secrets? They are not the business of anyone else, and they should not be taken into account when judging someone's job performance capabilities. Period.
I know people who make porn comics. I know people who strip, to get through college (yes, Really). I know people who mentally and emotionally identify as other than the biological sex and gender with which they were born. I know people who will only sleep with people of particular physical characteristics. I know people who write sonnets. I know people who make amazing artwork. I know people who use the word "fuck," every sentence, when they get drunk. I know people who like to get drunk, and then have discourses on politics, or religion, or sex, or cartoons, from when we were kids. As you may have guessed, many of those people are the same people, and they are fucking Awesome. They are smart, funny, engaging people, who do wonderfully at their jobs, and what they do on their own time doesn't interfere with their public work life, to any meaningful degree.
We-- people of the mindset i have described, at length-- are the majority of the available workforce, and therefore should be the ones with the ability to set the rulse. Why have we not made this the norm?
This has gone on way too long, and you're probably not even reading this, anymore. All I was trying to say was that, last night, I had a dream about this one really hot brunette who was actually two of herself, due to having been "twinned," and who I was trying to get to have sex with herselves. That's all.
Good night.
Good. This is all in service of saying that, last night, I dreamed that i was convincing two women who were the same woman but "twinned" or doubled that it was okay to have sex with each other because it was really only having sex with themselves, and I asked them each what the other was thinking, and told them that they would still know, because they hadn't gone out into the world and had experiences which differed from each other, yet, and besides, they'd already started making out, so what was the big deal...
*deep breath* But I didn't want to write it down, because I've been applying for new jobs, lately, and this sent me into a weird "Do i friendslock this? Should I F-Lock my whole LiveJournal? Am I really going to do this 'Filters' thing? What about Allie Brosh? She's making a public spectacle out of herself on the internet, and doesn't hold back a single detail. Yeah, but she's literally devoted her life to Being On The Internet; it's how she makes her living. Is that how I want to make my living? Because that's the only way you can really be that unabashedly open, on the Tubes." See, I was seriously worried that I might not get a job because someone saw that I had sex dreams and wrote about them on the Internet.
Not just that, but all the other deviant shit I do, think, and am.
Well guess what, Damien? That ship has fucking sailed, buddy. There's all kinds of crazy shit about me on the intertubs, and you know what? I put a lot of it there. Almost none of it, however, speaks to my capacity to be a potential asset to a future work environment. But the world doesn't work like that, yet. We're still in a day and age when people use party pictures found on Facebook to justify firing someone, or when the authorities are monitoring Invitations to break up "large" public gatherings, under the pretense that they might become a "public nuisance." People have not yet gotten to the point where they are able or willing to differentiate between something that someone does on their own time and something that they do in the course of their work lives.
And, yes, there are overlaps, there are grey areas, places where what we do and who we claim to be are under the purview of public scrutiny, and that's understandable, but that is not daily life. Even so, say I'm a politician, right? Say i'm tasked with representing a majority of the people in my district, state, country, whatever, and it comes out that I've had an affair, or did a number of drugs, in my younger years, or really dig BDSM clubs. Ideally, this shouldn't be a concern of anyone, ever, as long as I'm not using my position to push my ideals onto the people. As long as I'm not saying that everyone must do these things that I like, then why the hell should anyone care, right?
But they do care. They care a lot, because, to some people, the simple ontological fact is that the existence of other points of view, preferences, desires, ways of viewing the world, is a threat, and it must be erradicated. In fact, I would go so far as to say that this is the case for everyone on a fundamental level, but that very many of us do a wonderful job of realising what the logical extent of either this view point or its antithesis would entail: Forced re-education and or constantly warring with those who disagree. It's not a pretty thought, and that's kind of what the world is like, already.
I want people to be judged on the merits of their on-the-job potential rather than the unconnected ephermera of the rest of their personal lives. I try not to discuss my employers, in my online life, and if I do, I certainly don't do it by name. I don't lie about time off I need, and then brag about it, on Facebook. I don't discuss the particulars of any illegal practices in which I may or may not engage, in public, and certainly not displayed to the world for god and everyone. But that's because those things are stupid. The very premliminary acts, themselves, are idiotic, and fall under the rubrick of "Shit We Don't Talk About At The Watercooler."
But the things that aren't illegal, the things that aren't lies or "pullling one over" on the boss, the things that aren't openly badmouthing employers, or discussing company business/secrets? They are not the business of anyone else, and they should not be taken into account when judging someone's job performance capabilities. Period.
I know people who make porn comics. I know people who strip, to get through college (yes, Really). I know people who mentally and emotionally identify as other than the biological sex and gender with which they were born. I know people who will only sleep with people of particular physical characteristics. I know people who write sonnets. I know people who make amazing artwork. I know people who use the word "fuck," every sentence, when they get drunk. I know people who like to get drunk, and then have discourses on politics, or religion, or sex, or cartoons, from when we were kids. As you may have guessed, many of those people are the same people, and they are fucking Awesome. They are smart, funny, engaging people, who do wonderfully at their jobs, and what they do on their own time doesn't interfere with their public work life, to any meaningful degree.
We-- people of the mindset i have described, at length-- are the majority of the available workforce, and therefore should be the ones with the ability to set the rulse. Why have we not made this the norm?
This has gone on way too long, and you're probably not even reading this, anymore. All I was trying to say was that, last night, I had a dream about this one really hot brunette who was actually two of herself, due to having been "twinned," and who I was trying to get to have sex with herselves. That's all.
Good night.
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Date: 2010-06-01 11:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-06-02 05:08 am (UTC)But mostly it's the me-being-fucked-up thing ;)