The virtually universal practice of assigning a permanent name at birth (which only exists so that governments can more easily tax us) has caused a species-wide shift towards a more narcissistic and egotistical mode of being.
Neither of us are using our government-assigned names right now. Has the internet-culture norm of creating pseudonymous usernames countered this shift?
Interesting. I guess in some ways yes because it’s giving people access to another form of identity but it’s also kind of orthogonal in that the identity is only used in virtual environment and it’s pseudonymous. The argument in this heresy is that we being less attached to our names IRL would cause a shift of some kind in cognition/consciousness.
I recently met an internet pseudonymous person in real life (who’s very successful on the internet) and they just went by their internet name and it was really cool. They were so the person that I knew on the internet, very integrated.
Neither of us are using our government-assigned names right now. Has the internet-culture norm of creating pseudonymous usernames countered this shift?
Interesting. I guess in some ways yes because it’s giving people access to another form of identity but it’s also kind of orthogonal in that the identity is only used in virtual environment and it’s pseudonymous. The argument in this heresy is that we being less attached to our names IRL would cause a shift of some kind in cognition/consciousness.
I recently met an internet pseudonymous person in real life (who’s very successful on the internet) and they just went by their internet name and it was really cool. They were so the person that I knew on the internet, very integrated.