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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The reason it's increasingly surprising to you is that its not a principle that's as fundamentally held as you believed it to be. *shrug*
I understand that some people feel that way--and that's fine. But like it or not, the internet is changing how society views privacy and anonymity. And there never was a "life, liberty, and the pursuit of anonymity" clause.
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Nice to meet you Dealer,
no, I did not mean that I believed it to be that fundamentally held. It has to be though fundamentally held that some live by that principle, and some make it even stricter as it is under constantly growing threat.
What you are calling the "«internet»" as a culture changer is a special construct resulting as a meeting point of interests and disingenuity. A historical fact, not a value. Culturally, with growing evidence, a paradoxical incident - the Cure bringing Sickness. It is causing in society a divide - as that force that you see is separating the naive, the enthusiast and the passive from the conservative. There was never a «life, liberty, and the pursuit of anonymity» clause probably around your parts (though that «liberty», "liberty from", could largely include that closure), while I grant you that it shall remain a tenet around mine - today, a stricter tenet and an unfortunate struggle.
You cannot buy a good amount of merchandise online, or not properly, not commonsensically, the same way you cannot buy a bride from a picture. You are supposed to touch cloth, for example - seeing it in picture cannot suffice. For books, it is partially like that: if only as one may want to browse content before purchase (you cannot otherwise). You may also want to have the whole collection, all the editorial series you may be interested in, available for browsing (again something not really given online). Then, it is a different experience to browse all the wealth directly in front of you spatially, instead of navigating through the obliged selections of a screen content. And I shall also add, it is good company and refreshing surroundings, all the attempts at knowledge and wisdom and wits around you, for some of us - as in, "name a better place". May I on this quote Leebase himself:
«It was nice being able to browse for a book. Nicer than browsing [...]. There is something about SEEING a book ...»