in reply to a thoughtful post by GoSpeed

I wonder about, and sometimes obsess, from the academic perspective of post-modernism; Eco,Derrida,the deconstructionists, and the Buddha inside me, about what these identities mean and how they are as ephemeral as our RL selves…moments..

but the boundaries fascinate me, between the you and i and the individual and the community, the avatar and the driver, the avatar and other avs..

I’ve reached back to a concept that my psychedelically influenced mind caught a glimpse of as a pre-med wannabe who was enchanted with connective tissue and chemical and electrical communication across membranes. These are usually selective (voluntarily) permeable membranes that are a staple in Terran physiologies..sometimes not of course!

and these are the thin veils that I believe we adress/acknowledge/construct/build in everyday life as we decide what is the “me” and what is the “other”, and contemplate the locuses of control and influence. Shinran Shonin, a 13th century bodhitsadva, said all this was completely incomprehensible to humans. We are most likely completely ignorant to the the reality that drives us…as we drive our avatars. We are “bonbo”; stupid deluded creatures with little understanding of our place in the narrative.

And so the permeable membrane becomes the object of my desire, the invisible but profound boundary that i must accept and understand as the limiting film of tissue that my face keeps whacking into whenever I try to see something new.

and so the relationships we have with our avs, and between our avs, and the complex tapestry of relationships between the uses and the thems and the now that is only for the moment is what interests me.

let’s talk more… all of us.