This has been percolating in my mind for years. The past couple of weeks have really brought it to the forefront. I'll bounce around, as I often do, but I hope you find it an interesting idea.
I saw a Saturday Night Live with Jon Stewart hosting years & years ago & it's close to Halloween so I'll not use an original example, but a relevant one:
So let's pretend you're a dude that likes to fuck pumpkins.
You like the squishy, slimy seeds & that is what gets you off & that's what you think about & that's what you fantasize about.
Well you probably think you're a pretty odd character & I would completely agree. You're a fucking freak & you should feel strange & odd because you are. If that's your thing then, whatever, it's not hurting anyone but it is bizarre.
But I bet, & I swear I haven't tried it, but I bet if I went to google right now & spent 10-15 minutes searching, I could find a whole community of freaks just like that dude that's into pumpkins. And if I could find them then so could he.
And he wouldn't feel alone & strange any longer because he'd find companionship. He'd find people that shared his interest & people to discuss which pumpkins felt the best & what time of year was the best time, etc.
He could feed his frenzy.
I love the Internet. How many people have I reconnected with? How many people have I met? Too many to count & I would not change any of it for anything but I honestly think it lends credence to things that are best kept private.
An anonymous on-line community sometimes leads to real life, real fucked up behavior.
My court case ~ how difficult would it have been for that back woods hillbilly to find kiddie porn without the Internet? He might have had an inkling that he was a pervert but he could have better kept a lid on it. He'd of had to stick to Barely Legal magazines & the like & the world would have been a better place.
I'm not saying things are wrong. I'm not saying they're right. I think the more freedoms we all have the better we are. But we have to control ourselves. And sometimes the Internet makes it too easy to feed your frenzy.
One of my favorite thoughts I've ever had. That & C.B.
Have a great night!
Always a great night when there is material to write or read....
ReplyDeleteThe fact that technology has brought these deviant behaviors of the World to the forefront, before they only had to rely on snail mail. Before the internet and the secrecy that it provides, these groups hid in the shadows and engaged in these activities under the cloak of anonymity by wearing costumes or hoods. They had secret handshakes, code words, and insignias now these groups have the ability to converse in real time and instantaneously. They share the information and instances as often as we do e-mail jokes and photos of our families and friends. Whether they prefer boys, girls, cats, dogs, goats, horses, vegetables, fruits, and or any other item that can bring them their pleasure the information is out there. The World Wide Web, or WWW.com as we all know it, has the ability to inform, entertain, and repulse if the content that is being discussed has that reaction from those of us who read it. I think that as technology has given us more and more of the outside world; it has also made some of us so scared to even exit our own houses. The best thing we can do, it to censor ourselves and control what we do and hope to hell that one of these people aren’t found out in our gardens on Halloween doing their own style of “Trick or Treating.”
There is something strange out there wherever you go. Freedom of thought can never be controlled. Use good sense, educate our children and ourselves to be streetwise. That's parenting and being smart.
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