Another Sunday, being spent mostly on Second Life (SL). This "world" fascinates me, the pretensions, long surpressed self-expression. The lies the unspoken but obvious truths are at once hilarious and heart rending.
I am at a Canadian run goth club listening to to an Italian DJ who's voice and demeanor don't match. Dancing avatars and a Duce like speaker impressed on furious American English lyrics.
But that is what is so much fun about SL, despite the pretense and the carefully constructed avatars, truth is obvious and undeniable. These avatars represent those who's heart and head is only briefly united when on SL. The embarrassed silences to my quips about Mussolini are not because they disagree but because they do not know. The facade belies the truth, that most here are as clueless in this electronic world as they are in RL but without the camouflage provided by physical interaction they are exposed as never before.
And, so, SL telescopes truth.... IT is life to the 10th power without the ability to hide.
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