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I don't know if this is just typical midlife stuff, or if I'm in serious psychological trouble.
  • Anon at 12:12

    I am part of that army! Every day I read Cary. I don't know what moniker you've chosen when you post, but I will look for you, as I do several on my fave short list. Often I try to picture them, what their days are like, where they live.... then pc. it together with their words. I want to see the big picture to enrich the experience of sharing words, with virtual strangers. (Well, complete strangers.) I enjoy when they tell their stories, yet others spit, "narcissist" or "self-absorbed".

    How do they leap from experiencing someone's story to attacking the person for that story, the one they just chose to read? Often it isn't even a story, but a bit of news and all hell breaks loose.

    The projection has always been outrageous. Like rioters, they join in, kicking the kid with the bow tie and briefcase. They then move along and kick another person they've projected onto. It's a strange phenomenon of this techno society to be so far removed from the other.