Re: [projectvrm] Scott Adams: Information is the Cure for Privacy

[Dan Lyke < >]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 3:49 PM,  
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> He asks people if they'd really need privacy if everyone knew
> everything about everybody

So with the death of Robin Williams, I just listened to Marc Maron's
WTF Podcast interview with him. One of the things they talked about
was self-censorship, going "too far", trying to find that balance
between funny and alienating their audience.

And that sometimes when comics get together, they stretch to figure
out where that boundary lies.

It occurs to me that privacy is like this: There are ideas which are
"too far", but if we don't have spaces where we can explore those
ideas without exposing the general public to them, then we'll not only
lose comedy, we'll lose creativity.

I'm sympathetic to the argument that we need to work towards a society
where we don't shame the different, but we, as humans, work in
abstractions, and draw our lines in coarse crayon, not .5mm mechanical
pencil (which any woodworker will tell you is still way too
imprecise).

If we're going to explore those boundaries, we have to cut, and that
means we have to be able to dance across those lines, stomp all over
those social norms and mores, in some sort of privacy.

Because some day "too far" and "too soon" are "lame" and "old".

Dan