Authors and Anonymity
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Re: Authors and Anonymity
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It's a complex issue that isn't necessarily connected to anonimity. I mean, even if a writer is publicly known, he/she might hide certain negative personality traits or his/her donations. There are many celebrities who seem nice and only after a long time you discover it's all a facade.AnxiousSocks wrote: ↑16 Aug 2019, 01:21 Sometimes it is really good to know who wrote a book, mostly because I would want to know whether I want to support that person financially. If the author is a terrible person or gives their money to certain organizations that I think are awful, I would like to know. However, I do think it should be their right to remain anonymous...so I am kind of in a rut about this one.
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The answer to your dilemma is easy: don't give money to anonymous writers.AnxiousSocks wrote: ↑16 Aug 2019, 01:21 Sometimes it is really good to know who wrote a book, mostly because I would want to know whether I want to support that person financially. If the author is a terrible person or gives their money to certain organizations that I think are awful, I would like to know. However, I do think it should be their right to remain anonymous...so I am kind of in a rut about this one.
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I, however, wish to often be unassociated from my work. I want the words to stand on their own. Personal attachment means it gets credit or discredit by association. Instead, I want the reader to examine the thoughts by themselves and connect them to their own lives rather than to my life.
In other words, is something true if only spoken from pre-approved authority figures, or is it true regardless? We use authority figures to learn what to trust, but often it limits our understanding that we are all explorers of the truth. The authority figure is important but not all inhibitive as the only path. The next popular idea that someday becomes the norm must first be thought by a single minority of one and is not always accepted by authority all at once.
So I'm in favor of anonymity for both this reason that knowledge should not be limited down specific pipelines and because since I believe that I want to protect my private life from all those that may disagree with that assertion.
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