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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank
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To: Neocon who wrote (57062)9/6/2002 4:55:35 PM
From: epicure  Read Replies (2) of 82486
 
Let us use an example that is purely fiction.

Say someone named "Sally Jane Braddock" posts on SI- and uses that name as her alias. She claims it is her real name. We do not know this, only SI knows this.

Say that SJB really is the real name of the person posting under that name. Does that make SJB's posts "real"? If someone has there alias say "I love you" to SJB's alias, does she have a reasonable expectation that the person behind the alias loves the real person behind the SJB alias? Although many people here seem to be saying that she could have such a reasonable expectation, I think the whole thing is such a fantasy, so much made up in our minds, that none of it is very reasonable. I do not think you can take very seriously what aliases say or do to each other- even if the Alias is a "real" name. Because a name is just a word, if you don't know the person. CH is every bit as unreal as Neocon, to me. I don't know either one of you as people. Your aliases are clusters of ideas, posted by real people.
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