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Sep. 23rd, 2005 05:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
beccaelizabethalso today, my signal/noise filter is screwed
got fooled by an article from the Onion for a bunch more paragraphs than I should have :eyeroll:
I don't like practical jokes and fake news. I mean to get the 'joke' there has to be some generally agreed on standard of 'plausible', so that the fake news is 'obviously' implausible. But by this point, reading all the news, long time foretan times reader, about the only thing I'm sure of is nothing is impossible, *especially* in the area of human behaviour. Somebody somewhere would do *anything*, especially for money. Or fame. Or sex. Or... well, human motivation, very wide and varied.
It's like the rule that somebody somewhere fancies anyone. Which is kind of reassuring, in that there is no one in the world so ugly no one fancies them, but also vaguely worrying, because strange.
But everyone is strange.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
Strange stuff happens.
And a lot of it is closer to home than it used to be. I know there's a whole section of FOAF tales, Friend of a Friend, where anything can happen. That isn't what I mean. FOAF used to be un named. These days, any big news thing happens, either someone on my friends list is involved or someone on *their* friends list is. People connect in so many ways across such a range of geography now. Shared interests make patterns.
And sometimes people just turn out to know people. Like there was someone I got to know in Highlander fandom via mailing lists and conventions. They lived elsewhere in Europe, they came to study just down the road from me at the UEA. And they met my best friend at an event entirely unconnected with fandom, without either of them knowing the other knew me. Just one of those strange things.
People are very interconnected. Is why is not good when any part of the world gets messed up. It echoes everywhere.
got fooled by an article from the Onion for a bunch more paragraphs than I should have :eyeroll:
I don't like practical jokes and fake news. I mean to get the 'joke' there has to be some generally agreed on standard of 'plausible', so that the fake news is 'obviously' implausible. But by this point, reading all the news, long time foretan times reader, about the only thing I'm sure of is nothing is impossible, *especially* in the area of human behaviour. Somebody somewhere would do *anything*, especially for money. Or fame. Or sex. Or... well, human motivation, very wide and varied.
It's like the rule that somebody somewhere fancies anyone. Which is kind of reassuring, in that there is no one in the world so ugly no one fancies them, but also vaguely worrying, because strange.
But everyone is strange.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
Strange stuff happens.
And a lot of it is closer to home than it used to be. I know there's a whole section of FOAF tales, Friend of a Friend, where anything can happen. That isn't what I mean. FOAF used to be un named. These days, any big news thing happens, either someone on my friends list is involved or someone on *their* friends list is. People connect in so many ways across such a range of geography now. Shared interests make patterns.
And sometimes people just turn out to know people. Like there was someone I got to know in Highlander fandom via mailing lists and conventions. They lived elsewhere in Europe, they came to study just down the road from me at the UEA. And they met my best friend at an event entirely unconnected with fandom, without either of them knowing the other knew me. Just one of those strange things.
People are very interconnected. Is why is not good when any part of the world gets messed up. It echoes everywhere.