I actually agonized about that. On one hand, I am going to be posting my (very) nonconformist politics, ideology and religion where it can be read by anybody. I am an aggressive proponant of my beliefs, and those beliefs are decidedly not the norm. To post anonymously seems dangerously close to cowardice, and cannot send a strong message about the courage of my convictions.
On the other hand, I have a wife and a child. While I think my wife agrees with me on most things, she is a very different person than I, and should not feel the backlash from my opinions. This is not a casual concern, but a very specific one. My wife is a teacher of young children. If her name were associated with my political beliefs, she would certainly feel the effect, and it may impair her, and our, livelihood.
I have to decide in favor of protecting my family. Sound overly melodramatic? I thought so, too, but could not shake the thought that if I am going to be as honest as I want to be in this blog, I can't put my real name on it, not now, not in post 9-11 paronoid america.
What could I possibly believe that would cause such backlash, in the USA, where we enjoy freedom of speech? What religious beliefs could I possibly have that being associated with them would be damaging?
I am sure they will come up.
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this is such a hard one.....thats why I have a lot of my posts "private" on myspace because of who might read them.....and i keep my posts pretty non-threatening...what a crazy world we live in!
Whereas, I like my posts to be as threatening as possible, I am just too much of a pussy to put up with the cops banging on my door. But I figured if I am going to go around claiming that drugs are good, organized religion is bad and republicans have all caught Teh Stoopid, I should probably go with the anonymous, cowering-behind-digital-anonymity thing.
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