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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (100466)	4/6/2005 7:29:58 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

"i do indeed 'take care' to foster the image i aspire to..." Image indeed I'm not sure how Norma plays into this really. You've brought her up before, but Norma was a poor deluded egoist. What I am talking about has very little to do with thinking you are the center of attention- it actually has quite a lot to do with realizing that each person on SI is really the hero of his or her own life story, and thus is interpreting the data on SI in a very personal, and subjective way (I'm not sure Norma could really be that empathetic about people- I don't think she realized that to some extent we are each the "star" of our own life, because some people think they are the only star- and I would argue Norma was one of those people). Each of us on SI is selecting what we choose to withhold and what we choose to reveal, not as a movie actress would, for affect (or at least I would guess most of us aren't, some probably are) but more in terms of personal protection. The people I speak to seem to be protecting their privacy, and parts of their lives other people might abuse them for. Very few people on SI are revealing the inner details of their marital affairs- and yet we know statistically that many people here are probably having them, at this very moment. I'm sure some people here are having financial problems, but those are rarely revealed. Weaknesses, in general, are rarely revealed- and with good reason. Their are some fairly serious predators on SI, who can be rather creepy. So far from being Norma Desmondish, I suspect most people are just in self preservation mode- they don't want to be attacked, they try to be consistent so they won't get stomped on as hypocrites by people who keep files on other posters, and they don't reveal personal identifying information. What I read of Mullholland Drive is a very small part of the complex woman that you are. Your physical self is not here, really- only the affects that self has on your thinking, and emotions- and many people are very influenced by a physical self. Attractive people, unattractive people, old people, young people- the physical self is a huge component of who you are, how you feel, and how people react to you. That self is not very present on SI. You are your emotions. And yet emotions are difficult to communicate in cyber space. You can try, but it's a very poor copy of 3d. So much is lost in translation. So we'll just have to disagree, I guess.