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

To: The Philosopher who wrote (57438)	9/9/2002 4:18:40 PM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 82486

I can't recall for certain, but I think I picked the phrase up somewhere. I think there is a better chance of knowing someone in 3D, assuming the kind of prolonged, intimate contact that we engage in with few people. I will tell you a story: I went to a wedding and reception, a dozen years ago, and got to talking with a college student about problems he was having with his girlfriend. I told him about some tensions in my marriage, then current, which I thought would help give him perspective. He expressed surprise that I had been so forthcoming. I told him: "I would not have been if it were not pretty sure that I would never see you again, and that we would not be in the same circles". Perhaps the opportunity to play roles is greater in cyberspace, but it is balanced, I think, by the opportunity afforded to say things that might be considered indelicate or overly- confiding in 3D. Most of our acquaintances do not, in fact, want us to pry into their business, or burden them with our problems, or to debate religion or politics much. The paradigm is the cocktail party, where everyone stands, circulates, and touches base for several minutes before moving on, or the dinner party, where everyone has his set- piece anecdote on the ready to amuse the company, and conversation over coffee turns to vacation plans.......