On the nets, you can be literally anybody you want. You can create your own profile, identity, abilities, and portray them as though they were your own. Such freedom is brilliant, for young minds get their chance for recognition and respect if they are able to intelligently reason and debate topics.
Forums are an excellent way to mask your age and develop a personality that can wildly diverge from reality. With the flux of posts from around the globe, ideas are bandied about easily, and one can pick up tips from the merely good, and the excellent. All the while, one can accumulate respect if one posts intelligently, critically and respectfully. Such earned credit is crucial to displaying that one has the mental aptitude to conduct arguments and discussions with others.
This post sort of just came to my head, after having read once again Ender's Game, with 2 child characters masquerading as world leaders and political commentators on the anonymous webs. Quite an interesting parallel to the modern-day internet, particularly since this book was written before the digital era truly began. A fascinating read, and the themes inside are quite interesting of themselves, never mind how Card depicts them (rather well, I feel.)
R.
Forums are an excellent way to mask your age and develop a personality that can wildly diverge from reality. With the flux of posts from around the globe, ideas are bandied about easily, and one can pick up tips from the merely good, and the excellent. All the while, one can accumulate respect if one posts intelligently, critically and respectfully. Such earned credit is crucial to displaying that one has the mental aptitude to conduct arguments and discussions with others.
This post sort of just came to my head, after having read once again Ender's Game, with 2 child characters masquerading as world leaders and political commentators on the anonymous webs. Quite an interesting parallel to the modern-day internet, particularly since this book was written before the digital era truly began. A fascinating read, and the themes inside are quite interesting of themselves, never mind how Card depicts them (rather well, I feel.)
R.
