This is why I can't have nice things.

I had a discusion with a friend about this recently and that is; How exactly do you strip away all the fear and social/religious constraints that are placed on us? One of the purposes of this whole project is to get people to shed them of that fear and get them to do things and create things they normally wouldn’t do.

Now a lot of this stuff has been pounded into our heads since we were children. Be polite, don’t do bad things, etc etc. Now what exactly is bad things? What exactly is polite? That I think is what we need to overcome. We have been told various things and that it has a certain definition. We need to be able to redefine what is good and bad. This is something that you define in your head. Sure society and media and all others might have their set definitions but that shouldn’t hold us back in this situation. Remember, we are not apart of that anymore. We have set a persona that trancends these current influences cause we are now part of this cyber world. It is a very real and very fake world at the same time.

Now that we have that mind set, we can easily break those chains now. We can now take in the information that is available to us and use it to create things, to formulate ideas or anything we damn well please and by anything I mean anything. Good or bad now is in your domain. Can you set aside the things you learned as your grew up and decide to make your own decisions on what is good and bad? I don’t know if you can, but I would like to see you all try.

So I have been told that I was not clear in the first post about this experiment. Some people got it instantly, others not so much. So we are going to go over this in hopefully a more coherent way. So hit the read more button to get the basics.

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Ok, so I had this idea last night. I work in the field of Network Security and I deal with computers and the intertubes on a very daily basis for both work and personal things. I started to think, you know what? I want to use Linux as a primary desktop. Problem is, why would I do that? Yes it has its advantages and disadvantages and we could go on and on about that but there is no real reason for me to do it since I have legal copies of windows and everything works fine.

Then I thought of something fun to try. How about I create a problem or a situation where I am forced to use linux and act like it was the only thing in my life. Then I started to think about it more. How about I create a brand new online identity and shove all of my online related things I like to do, gaming, videos and random other internet stuff. That would be interesting, but how about I push it a little further? How about I take all of that and put it in this little world as well as everything I wanted to do but was either too afraid to try or for whatever reasons just never did it.

So basically what I am proposing is to use a Linux distro and create a new identity that may or may not be linked to my personal life. For instance; Say I always wanted to do something, could be anything, in the real world and want people to know about it but don’t really want them to know it’s from Me. You could also just do it to vent, create an alternate version of you where you don’t have to hide who you are because of some social bullshit. So you can be Anonymous or you can link it to your real life if you want. Make these 2 worlds and try to separate it, use the new identity to try new things, explore and learn.

You may be asking, Why the fuck would I want to do this? Honestly? I have no idea. This seems like a lot of fun to me but that is probably cause I see the privacy impact of this. You are created a brand new identity to connect to the virtual world that is a scary place if you think about it. So many companies know so much about you that you can’t get away from it. You could use this to even just be on the web, though if you want to purchase things online you would need to be a little careful in what you have saved and would probably want to use loadable visa/mastercard cash card things, but that is a thing for some other time. The thing is you are always tracked and always monitored. Any privacy that you have online, well, you THINK you have online, is not really there. Facebook uses that info, Google does everyone does. So by doing this you are learning how to protect yourself better.

Now this is not really going to work for me in the aspect of keeping a virtual identity clear of my real one. But I will try what I can. I would like other people to try this. I can help with any issues you may have tech wise but I really want to promote using this setup to do things you normally wouldn’t do. Create things, learn things and mainly just be who you actually are. Do things you are/were afraid of doing. Then when you start to feel comfortable with it, try to merge it with your offline personality. See if it is something you can do.

So we are now going to follow my path into this fun world. We are going to explore the things I have always wanted to do but never felt that I could do them. This should prove entertaining if nothing else.

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