"My cartoon finds your cartoon attractive."I'm exploring the consciously created, coded entity, the alternate universe known as Second Life, (or, alternatively, "SL" or "2L") to its denizens.
This is as opposed to "RL" or "1L" as I've seen them refer to real life...or, as I'm becoming prone to thinking of it as, "real" life.
SL isn't a metaphor for RL. It's a stripped down simulacrum. So, why is it I'm scared of emotional or moral freefall in SL...and yet I don't feel that way in RL, where things have very real consequences? DISCUSS:
Maybe the phenomenon of "crazies" and other lapses in self-control described by those who experience or suffer it here is the response of individuals to finding themselves in a place with few (and even fewer legal) boundaries? This vacuum is full-frontal stygian abyss, the gazing into which leads to madness ...or enlightenment.
While the truth and purity of liberty gives voice to exultation in some in SL, this world, by having a very explicable Creator, makes the existential angst when faced with absolute freedom and zero instrinsic meaning just too much for some souls to bear, causing them to miss out the wonderful opportunity to "scream the eternal "'Yes!'"
