It is a proven fact that in hard times people become more giving, helping others while struggling themselves within the very unstable economic climate that now prevails worldwide. In a world torn apart by conflict where the innocents are always the causalities of arbitrary violence people dig deep to help others. Whether it is an appeal from a local community charity or a world wide appeal to help those in need in far off lands us humans, us mere mortals underneath all the bravado are generous to a fault. Well done. Of course there will always be the bigots and the racists but they will be banished to the shallow end of the pool to splash around with those other intellectually challenged members of our society, politicians and weathermen.
Whether one is right or left leaning, or conservative by nature, human suffering invokes in all of us (or should at least) a deep sense of sympathy and empathy with the suffering. It’s what separates us from animals, we have that capacity to acknowledge suffering and to do something about that suffering and in doing so makes us a little bit more human and perhaps even makes us cherish the things we have more, for let’s be frank here, if you are a resident of RLC it means you have a computer at least, access to the internet and a bank account, and therefore don’t fall into that unfortunate category of the misfortunate and the needy.
The allure of virtual spaces (for me at least) is that in order to navigate these online environments we have to learn to express ourselves more, to put into words our emotions, it is our skills as narrators that help us most. We practice our perceptions of identity, the perception of ourselves we want to project and the way that we want to be perceived by others. The bleed through between the physical and the virtual personally is that because I practice my social skills online in doing so I become more expressive off line, gets me some sideways glances sometimes as if to say u freak me out your pert but generally people find me more accommodating and easier to approach. In academia and in the popular press the debate trundles on about whether relationships and friendships we have online are to the detriment of face to face interactions or do online social medias platforms augment our lives making them more manageable, whichever way you lean (personally I lean to the left….wink, wink) one thing is certain the net is here and here to stay so love it or lump it is now as much a part of our world as coca cola or Oprah Winfrey. The great dissemination of networked media had galloped forward since the emergence of www in 1991 and since then we have rendered the internet as something common, belonging to us all, not just to the elites of our society, we can’t imagine a world without it and can barely remember the world when it wasn’t with us. Well cutting a long story short, I know I do waffle but I have an Editor and a word count so bite me the point is that we must embrace this idea of globalization and no matter which god you bend your knee too or which political party gets your vote we must never turn a blind eye to the suffering of our fellow residents of this global village we now share together.
And to finish I am going to remind you that charity begins at home so I am declaring this month, eco month and for ye ladies to put the organic back into orgasm. Throw away those eco unfriendly power tools ie. PVC dildos, do you bit while getting your bit. Throw those plastic monsters onto the refuse tips to confuse the hell out of future archaeologist when they dig out these mountains of plastic cocks in centuries to come, unearthed as a clue to a time half remembered through squinting eyes and well worked wrists. Not suggesting getting rid of your best friend altogether, hell no, that would be just cruel, just go green, go glass, a little colder to the touch for sure (so I am told) but comes with all kinds of kinky spiraled edges bringing a whole new meaning to seen the world through rose tinted glasses. If that’s not for you I have come across, believe it or not, solar powered dildos, but that might prove too awkward when you have to explain to your nosey neighbor why your best friend is in the sun for so long; or even just going with rechargeable batteries a little less lithium and mercury in the landfill. Hell, even condom manufacturers are getting in on the action, so to speak, making them from fair trade rubber, chemical free with no animal by-products so all ye vegans will have to find another excuse for not giving blowjobs.
As I said let’s do our bit, keep it green. Talk to ye all next month.
Hard Times & Virtual Spaces
By Will890