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On the latest paypig @trueanon episode (which you can find free at /r/blackepsteinfeed) mentioned a theory about how "normal" people at protests having a valid reason west a mask might be inspiring some people to be more bold in their protest....
I am once again asking anyone who has played with masks, multiple identities, or anomitity at some point (catfishers, anons, trolls, self-mythologizers, trans, undercover) to watch the 1966 film "The Face Of Another", conveniently available on YouTube
That's how I'm going to end my night, at least.
A pivotal surreal scene in the film is litterally a man escaping into a crowd of people in faceless masks
My headcanon is that this is a prequel to Jim Carry's "The Mask"
One of my favorite scenes in the movie. Love the way the crowd, sound of the german beer hall (were german beer halls in japan a thing in the 60s?) fall away as their conversation becomes more intimate and serious.
Points about masks and solitude relevant to our quarentine world
Points about masks and solitude relevant to our quarentine world
This has been on my mind lately seeing how some PoC furries, a subculture where costumes and masks are extremely normalized, experience race inside the fandom https://twitter.com/Jinx_In_Boots/status/1269631471301660675?s=20
This was obviously touched on in the recent Watchmen reboot as well
Becoming what you pretend to be.
Neither. It is the mask getting him drunk. The doctor calls him out on this. Hes only had a beer and a half.
Buddy....
I want to capture this whole brief interlude where the doctor imagines a world of mass produced masks because it's basically the one you can live in now, if you want to (1/3)
The true dream of anonymous
Dont worry, a world like that could never really exist
As William Gibson might say, a world without anonymity is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet https://medium.com/@TayZonday/worldwide-recognition-anonymous-e9278e222cce
Good shit, bedtime, goodnight.
"Some masks dont come off" re: digital identity is an entire books worth of thoughts for me
https://twitter.com/thecoopertom/status/1269898269053857794?s=20
https://twitter.com/thecoopertom/status/1269898269053857794?s=20
Perhaps the doctor in the film would have benifited from something like this. https://twitter.com/ysabelgerrard/status/1271048118050738176?s=20
True not just for people ugly on the outside but also for people ugly on the inside. But I'm still not against it as a rule because it has plenty of other utility. https://twitter.com/JUDGE_T234/status/1271200927509143552?s=20
I havnt read that study I posted earlier yet but I'd be very interested to look at it with an eye towards seeing if any of it could apply ethical research of IRL pseudoanonymous figures.
Because baby, that's coming. https://twitter.com/marx_knopfler/status/1271216018623430661?s=20
Because baby, that's coming. https://twitter.com/marx_knopfler/status/1271216018623430661?s=20
We live in a time of wonders https://twitter.com/tom_on_here/status/1272988424077807616?s=20
The other side of the war? Shirts vs skins? https://twitter.com/RyanMarino/status/1272757844958490624?s=20
Another way of thinking about anonymity https://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/1273743630801371137?s=20
Imagining the long term implications of young people discovering they like granny roleplay https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1283409986169839616?s=20
This, but for faces https://twitter.com/jarurik/status/1287933714752778240?s=20
This post connects a lot of what I've been saying in this thread to a lot of what I've been saying elsewhere about the phantom Biden campaign being Max Headroom-esque https://twitter.com/WomanCorn/status/1293714261974417409?s=20
And I've also been ranting lately about the hijacking of "dead accounts" and wearing THE FACE OF ANOTHER. I'm smoking a joint right now and I've been drinking but it feels like there are a bunch of threads coming together here for me about anonymity https://twitter.com/Moonsoother/status/1293282200750665728?s=20
