re: #377 Killgore Trout

Interesting. You could still post there as the real you and we’d never know it was the real you.

That’s true! But I really can’t think of anything to say! Of course, in this persona I’m in now, I could write forever and never run out of things to say. But the “real” me is like some kind of Buddhist monk or nun who has taken a vow of silence.

Even in interpersonal conversations in the real world I have mostly fallen mute. For several years now I’ve been dishonest and “gone with the flow” and acted like the pre-9/11 me whenever politics ever came up in a conversation, but less and less can I tolerate doing that. Now, I just exude the “I don’t know or care about politics” vibe and that gets me out of most such conversations. Only with strangers or near strangers can I say something snarky and “counter-intuitive.”