there’s a lot of overlap for me with other dichotomies, and i’m becoming increasingly wary of it as a relegated sphere of "private" or “personal” life, with opposing poles of "public" and "professional".
irl i go by a different name and maintain a severed identity (even with friends/family). i largely evaluate this positively bc it keeps a disgusting version of myself at arms length. i don’t enjoy occupying my irl modality, but given the people and institutions i must interact with it’s good for now
i really like this
- your voice is really nice
- i like that you kept in mishaps
- im a huge sucker for reflective diary-posting
- the anxiety of influence looms large!
"when i was obsessed with lain and would talk about it to people, they were interested, they thought it was cool. whereas if i showed them gochiusa, they're just gonna think i'm a pervert. and that's how you know gochiusa is good."
this is actually just me plagiarizing Geuss in "Human Rights: A Very Bad Idea". we're both are skeptical/cautious with moral frameworks to start with, think rights-talk is often counter-productive, and in particular it is corrosive to how one conceptualizes their own and others' politics