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A Congressional Guide to The Problem of Pretending To Be Someone That You Are Not
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Series: The River Is Wide
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A Congressional Guide to the Problem of Pretending To Be Someone You Are Not
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I want to thank Former Congressman Weiner for casting "pretending to be someone you are not" into the media's glare- as ethically offensive and in his case- perverse , i.e. "willfully persisting in actions that seem contrary to good sense or your own best interests".
Yes, the guy has been burdened by the chains of instant recognizability With that Holy Grail of invisibility- The Internet- now offering "cover" - modern times makes not letting others know who you really are "in one's best interest", right?
Not if you really want to be somebody. Not if you want to take part in that human "best interest" called ethics.
Maybe those who are the easiest bait for Civilization's newest inventions are the most despairing among us-because they don't think about what's at stake. Think how long it took to realize that cars can easily kill you. Internet "cover" makes you nobody.
Maybe civilization's advance should be measured by our disdain for those who pretend to be something they are not. And people's freedom to be who they really are . Because being who you really are, for example, not communicating with someone by letting them think you are someone else, is being somebody. Ethics are us- our own invention- our genuineness. They have no smoke and mirrors. To have them, we have to be there- who we are - really. Thanks, Mr. Weiner. Now we know who you are, and a little more about who we are.
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A Congressional Guide to the Problem of Pretending To Be Someone You Are Not
-Susan Cook-
I want to thank Former Congressman Weiner for casting "pretending to be someone you are not" into the media's glare- as ethically offensive and in his case- perverse , i.e. "willfully persisting in actions that seem contrary to good sense or your own best interests".
Yes, the guy has been burdened by the chains of instant recognizability With that Holy Grail of invisibility- The Internet- now offering "cover" - modern times makes not letting others know who you really are "in one's best interest", right?
Not if you really want to be somebody. Not if you want to take part in that human "best interest" called ethics.
Maybe those who are the easiest bait for Civilization's newest inventions are the most despairing among us-because they don't think about what's at stake. Think how long it took to realize that cars can easily kill you. Internet "cover" makes you nobody.
Maybe civilization's advance should be measured by our disdain for those who pretend to be something they are not. And people's freedom to be who they really are . Because being who you really are, for example, not communicating with someone by letting them think you are someone else, is being somebody. Ethics are us- our own invention- our genuineness. They have no smoke and mirrors. To have them, we have to be there- who we are - really. Thanks, Mr. Weiner. Now we know who you are, and a little more about who we are.
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A Congressional Guide to the Problem of Pretending To Be Someone You Are Not
-Susan Cook-
I want to thank Former Congressman Weiner for casting "pretending to be someone you are not" into the media's glare- as ethically offensive and in his case- perverse , i.e. "willfully persisting in actions that seem contrary to good sense or your own best interests".
Yes, the guy has been burdened by the chains of instant recognizability With that Holy Grail of invisibility- The Internet- now offering "cover" - modern times makes not letting others know who you really are "in one's best interest", right?
Not if you really want to be somebody. Not if you want to take part in that human "best interest" called ethics.
Maybe those who are the easiest bait for Civilization's newest inventions are the most despairing among us-because they don't think about what's at stake. Think how long i...
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