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)
