The Value of Anonymity and Wikky Island: Episode 10

This blog is for you. It's also for me. The benefit of having a super-secret-superhero-secret identity is that I can mull over things here that I might not be able to in "the real world." When you get older life transitions into a dynamic of power. It is your capital and your currency.

Weakness is heavily frowned upon and even outright attacked.

So admitting your weaknesses or even working through them is taboo. So in real life, like many, I have none.

Absolutely ridiculous and a ridiculous way to live.

My outlet is writing. I explore fears, desires, challenges, and dreams in the stories I tell and the peoples' stories that I share. That is the gift of being a professional writer. You can go down a few of those roads.

But not all of them. There are still limits. A writer carries a sword (a diamond sword!) but you can only swing it so many times before your arms get tired of fighting. So you pick your battles and tell the stories that will leave you relatively unharmed.

Where am I going with this?

Anonymity. Google, Facebook - they absolutely hate it because anonymity does not generate useful data for them to sell to advertisers and other third parties. There is a fundamental value in having it, however, because there are stories to be told (that need to be told!) that wouldn't be told if there was fear of repercussion.

Not to say there shouldn't be repercussions for some stories told. Terrorists, child molesters, and the people who spit on your burgers at McDonald's all deserve fatal beatings.

But other stories that are told.

People who wrestle with being gay in a local culture of intolerance and hate who risk becoming an object of ridicule and yet another statistic if someone at school found out.

Or someone battling depression who just needs a place to express the darkness without fear of being denied entry to the US because they had an episode once.

Or even me.

I'm not going to drop heavy on you guys every day. But every once in a while expect a little bit of cathartic venting and a bit of a window into my soul. I give you permission to troll in the comments because the great thing about being WickedFrost is that my superpower is anonymity.

I don't know you. You don't know me.

You want to spew shit. No problem.

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Oh - and down below - Episode 10. Per request I've upped the resolution to 720p so enjoy me being awesome at Minecraft in HD.

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