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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (47988)	5/19/2002 3:38:51 PM
From: J. C. Dithers	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

Is it the case that people are really nice in large part because of the reactions of their friends around them, not because that's who they really are, and when they get here where they don't have to face people in person, they can be their much less nice real selves? Well, I think social interaction in the real world does rein in our baser instincts. We are shocked on a daily basis as to what "the nicest people" are capable of when sufficiently provoked (in their mind). That would lead to the melancholy conclusion that alias-personas here are more the real person than what their friends and neighbors are seeing on a daily basis ... and would indict chat lines as a facilitator for permitting the truer inner personality to be released and incarnated in an unhealthy way. Like Ronald Colman, we may each day become more like the role we are scripting for ourselves here. Maybe being "true to thineself" is not such a great thing after all..