Does myspace create a new place of post-modernity in which identities can multiply, or does it in fact do the opposite, creating rigid definitions of the self in which one is often compared to a greater societal archetype?

What does it say about a society in which people spend so much damn time on myspace? does it show an abcess? or is this actually something valuable? does it displace the trivial or does it displace meaningful, more effortful activity for activity that is crack-i-licious in its addictiveness and essentially hollow?

Myspace is a fragment representing the whole. The Internet is a new medium of digital communication where people can create a unique message for the masses.

This medium is limited by knowledge and hence the Internet slogan 'information is power'.

How ever, there is little difference between Internet and other forms of medium at present as the Internet is barely 'interactive'. At the base of interactivity is the human action of selecting links to direct information. Yet, does one not select information to read in a book by looking through the index? Or does not one select what to view on television by changing the channel?

There fore, the Internet is merely a collection of existing media and there fore albeit a new form of communication yet built on existing content.

This is not post-modernist in any sense of the true notion of the word as post-modernism is usually only heard of by gay rights activists because of the idea of rejecting the traditional roots of man which basically shame homosexuals and damn them there by giving them good reason to reject the traditional if they wish to follow a lifestyle of degradation.

How ever, myspace = post-modernism = delineation of self? Nah, thats too gay for me.

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you're just turning it into a personal attack, silvine.

mixing parts of reasoned truth inwith parts of your own subjective view doesn't make much sense.

i also have my own theories about gay people but the fact remains that these are best left in my own head or to discussions with those people i talk to intimately. as some girl licking clit or some guy getting a big, fat cock up his arse, it really doesn't concern me. i'm not also sure that post-modernism is more attractive to gay people than any other group of people - i like some post-modernist ideas myself, am i gay?

I like to research every thing on wikipedia so I do not bring any personal assumptions to the arguement.

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he's just so stupid it's funny at this point. he's like a walking anti-drug advertisement.

"hey kids! want your brain to melt and to turn into a schitzophrenic pile of stupidity? Try doing a shitload of acid until you think you are a magical prophet."

Rise Above: The Anti-Drug.

Gaymeds81: Stop sending me PMs. I do not read them, I delete them.

Yours sincerely,

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the movement is used to advance anything - it isn't about non-conformity, it is about self discovery. it's a way for people to be whatever it is they feel they need to be and to surround themselves with whatever they need to surround themselves with. it's a way for people to say "you know what? i don't like this, i want it my way". i didn't say the gay movement and the post-modernist movement were unlinked, i said gay people were not more into the post-modernist movement than any other kind of group of people. you've proven that by your quote, thank you very much.

the process of conforming is a universal one, and yet i don't think we can define one universal group of people - before you try that line of arguing, too. in this way everyone belongs to a group of people and not to a universal group, and as such all have potential to benefit from post-modernist thinking. it has been utilised mostly in civil rights and political movements, simply because people care most about those.

Here's another quote from Wikipedia:

Because of the association of Tarot cards with fortune telling, Christian groups such as The 700 Club and Focus on the Family oppose the use of Tarot cards as Satanic. Christians believe that the use of cards for divination purposes is forbidden by God (based on Bible verses such as Deuteronomy 18:10 and the incident in Acts 16:16-18); by extension, many Christians believe that no one should own Tarot cards. Use of Tarot cards is thought by some to be a means of demonic possession of those who use or even consult the cards.

Here's another Wikipedia quote:

Patients diagnosed with schizophrenia are highly likely to be diagnosed with other disorders. The lifetime prevalence of substance abuse disorders is typically around 40%.

A person experiencing untreated schizophrenia is typically characterized as demonstrating disorganized thinking, and as experiencing delusions or auditory hallucinations. Although the disorder is primarily thought to affect cognition, it can also contribute to chronic problems with behavior and emotion.

Here's the PM:

why do you have to turn everything into an anti-gay rant?

i regret giving you advice about your impending schitzophrenia doom. you're just an asshole, and it will be funny as hell when you lose your mind.

you really think post-modernism is a gay term? are you really that fucking stupid? that's like saying "impressionism" is a gay term, or that "reality tv" is a gay term.

your stupidity is unbelievable.

he doesn't hate you because you're gay.

he's just playing hard to get.

Gaymeds81:

I have HPPD. Its symptoms are similar to schizophrenia yet I have faced prejudice my self because of my disorder. People often think of me as some one who would do kill, rape, or abuse children because I have been diagnosed with HPPD.

It is the ignorance of society that I have to endure daily, from friends and family, and associates in the mental health sector. How ever, HPPD is a condition that arises from LSD abuse and is in no way similar to schizophrenia as schizophrenia is a disease of the brain whereas HPPD is the result of LSD abuse and it has been speculated that the actual LSD is stored in the spinal fluid released gradually and sporadically over decades of an individuals life causing LSD 'flashbacks'.

You know little about me - for a stalker...

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Gaymeds81:

As for the homosexual arguement - as I have quoted my source (wikipedia.org) this is why I made reference to homosexuality in relation to post-modernism. The two are associated together.

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Gaymeds81:

I am the prophet. This may seem impossible to believe - but many have been chosen for such things in times past. If you actually knew me in real life you would understand I am a highly enlightened individual. Here - on kitty radio - you read my discourse - which is completely seperate from my actual identity.

If you are ever in the Midlands, UK - you can come with us to hand out poppies at the airport.

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hahahahahhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahaaaaa aaaaaaaaaa

soooo funny.