Instead of repeating what I, and my fellow bloggers, would say to be our goals , I will just delve into a quick example of what we might mean by "reaction writing" (if you will)...
---Personal connection lost even through the simple pronunciation of a name----
Let us identify first that the internet has taken our ability to actually talk to someone (for those of you who don't know what I mean are welcome to join me for coffee tomorrow morning at my place so that I might explain it in detail, but that is beside the point, and so we return to the agenda at hand). Now knowing that, it can be taken into account as evidence towards the decline of the spoken language and our ability, as social creatures, to speak to one another, in even the simplest form, i.e. being able to pronounce someone's full name. Sure we can reduce the fact of the matter, that knowing how to pronounce someone's name is (in a more modern translation), "No big deal, man", but can also be seen as the extreme opposite...the lost of personal identity. Our names were given to us at birth (obviously not by choice, it's not like I can control a parent calling their kid "Blanket", as South Park (the greatest ongoing satire to ever be created by the way) was quick to respond to with their Michael Jackson episode a few seasons ago) and should be held sacred, regardless of how ridiculous you and the rest of us think it may be....
What does this say about our heritage; our respect for our own names? When did we start caring so much about what other people think that we are starting to throw away (what may be) one of the only things left that noone should be able to take from us?
Good question... [. . .] (couple extra for those just now catching up)
2 comments:
What do rapper's names say about them?
A rapper name is not a loss of personal identity but an extension of one's personality embraced through their public persona. Sadly, the extremity can be such where they are only known through their rapper name (jay-z, snoop dogg, etc. obvious examples) but do you think either of their mothers call them by these names? Probably not. [but] Do I know either of their mothers...definitely not.
Point being that rapper names are essential (like nicknames and such) because it's a different level of knowing someone (usually not as extreme as a big name rapper) in the sense that you call them something different because you know them enough already. But the problem with that can be (unlike what I was saying in the post) the fact that these big name rappers don't have names (to us anyway), unless they stick with their original name, which is pretty unlikely. An easy example being that Snoop Dogg will never be known to us as Cordazar Calvin Broadus...he will always be Snoop Dogg.
So if you are going to make everyone else know you by a different name, just make damn sure it's better than the one you already got! If not, keep the rapper name, embrace it, and hope you get a better one the next time around.
My rapper name is, T.B.I (The Big Inch)...
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