From: Regina Pancake (regina@appliedfx.com)
Date: Mon Aug 19 2002 - 20:44:36 MDT
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>the likely response of middle-of-the-road people researching a topic like
>this, for a newspaper or magazine article or TV soundbite, who find
>themselves directed in the first instance to the deep thoughts of someone
>who called himself FutureMan2030? (Or Avatar Polymorph, or T0Morrow, or R.
>U. Sirius for that matter, or even, cough cough, sorry, the rather flushed
>Romanticism of `Natasha Vita-More'?) These are insignia instantly (mis)read
>as the mark of the crank, the cyber-crazy, the ignorable or mockable.
You are very right about the name thing. I agree it just instantly tags the
individual as you say, a crank.
And there just isn't much one can do about that. When people go through a
great change through cults or belief systems
there is a need to drop the identity of the past and create a new persona.
Usually, family and friends get pretty pissed about it. The person is
changing or evolving for good or ill, but it doesn't matter.
Your surrounding humans usually reject it. There is an entire ream of jokes
just about people who changed their names in the 60's
I know that, for instance, if I was to change my last name, my dad would
dis-own me. And if I changed my first name, it would kill my mom. So with
a birth name like mine, I'm not going into politics anytime soon.
>Sorry, that's just how it is. Obviously people who select these new names
>do so for all kinds of defensible reasons, but mass media PR ain't one of
>them.
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>Your name is pretty respectable.
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