File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2001/anarchy-list.0111, message 170


From: "heather" <heather-AT-teknopunx.co.uk>
Subject: Re: cowards arguments less persuasive?
Date: Sat, 10 Nov 2001 00:48:19 -0000




----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
To: <anarchy-list-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 12:41 AM
Subject: Re: cowards arguments less persuasive?


>
>
> Somebody or other asked
>
>
> > What is it that makes a cowards arguments less persuasive
> > than a person who posts under their real (or an assumed) name ?
>
>
> Erik has already answered the question, so the only thing
> I need to comment on is that bit about "or an assumed name".
>
> My name is, of course, genuine. I think people who use assumed
> names must really, deep down, hate themselves. How could
> they possibly bear to pretend to be somebody else ? They must
> want to  BE  somebody else. I am far too conceited to ever use
> any name other than my own. I'm not even sure if I could bring
> myself to deny that I am Dave Coull if my life depended on
> doing so.

You're right, deep down i do hate myself, as many of we survivors do. You're
point is valid and on the mark. Some people get taught to hate themselves
and it's an insiduous thing to rid yourself of-you can't, but you learn how
to deal with it. I didn't think about the alias character i invented on the
spur of the moment when i rejoined the anti-capitalist egroup that banned me
fo days. Guess what my subconciouss instinctivly threw up as a character i
could play? A poor uneducated paraplegic dubliner living on a travellers
site in a draughty old caravan with a laptop and a dodgy wind generator.
I've been rejected and excluded for so long so often I don't have a scooby
what i have to present myself as to escape some fuckers dangerous and
malicious prejudice in the activist movement anymore. I don't want to BE
anyone else, I want to be able to be whoever i have to be to air the valid
viewpoints of a minority of visionaries and subvert all unhealthy dominant
paradigms.
so there
H
>
>
> Dave


   

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