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8 years ago
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(originally drafted to facebook)
I've been thinking a lot lately about my problem with language, which is tied into why I stopped writing. I've been reluctant to write about it here, because this space seems so weirdly performative, and that's a large part of what I'm trying to get away from. I think the value in airing stuff like this here is the value of other people's perspectives. At least that's the optimistic way to look at it. The cynical outlook is that the value to me in talking about it here is just attention in the form of comments and reactions, and that it would be better to keep it to myself and work it out on my own, or with the help of only those already accessible to me through less broadband channels. Right now I'm hovering over posting this or not posting it. Maybe I will post it on FA rather than FB because I am less self-conscious about potentially appearing as a madman there than here.
I've been thinking a lot lately about my problem with language, which is tied into why I stopped writing. I've been reluctant to write about it here, because this space seems so weirdly performative, and that's a large part of what I'm trying to get away from. I think the value in airing stuff like this here is the value of other people's perspectives. At least that's the optimistic way to look at it. The cynical outlook is that the value to me in talking about it here is just attention in the form of comments and reactions, and that it would be better to keep it to myself and work it out on my own, or with the help of only those already accessible to me through less broadband channels. Right now I'm hovering over posting this or not posting it. Maybe I will post it on FA rather than FB because I am less self-conscious about potentially appearing as a madman there than here.
