My purpose in using LJ is as an extension or substitute for in-person communication.
I would object horribly if you interrupted a conversation with me to recite a commercial for Pepsi. It would bother me if I began to feel that the purpose of our conversations was to hawk Pepsi.
The subversion of motivations for human conversation into a monetary purpose, is disgusting.
We have a "friend" in common (who I no longer really like), who once convinced me that it would be really nice if a bunch of us "friends" booked some space together at a B&B for an event. Later, I found that his motivations were to get a free room, and that he was acting as a booking agent for the B&B. (He, of course, didn't mention it: the B&B proprietor mentioned it to me, because of COURSE I would know.)
It was at that moment that I decided this pseudo-friend had little worth as a person, to me.
We have reached a cynical age, and I despise things that increase our mutual cynicism of one another. The profiting from friendships is surely the height of that cynicism.
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My purpose in using LJ is as an extension or substitute for in-person communication.
I would object horribly if you interrupted a conversation with me to recite a commercial for Pepsi. It would bother me if I began to feel that the purpose of our conversations was to hawk Pepsi.
The subversion of motivations for human conversation into a monetary purpose, is disgusting.
We have a "friend" in common (who I no longer really like), who once convinced me that it would be really nice if a bunch of us "friends" booked some space together at a B&B for an event. Later, I found that his motivations were to get a free room, and that he was acting as a booking agent for the B&B. (He, of course, didn't mention it: the B&B proprietor mentioned it to me, because of COURSE I would know.)
It was at that moment that I decided this pseudo-friend had little worth as a person, to me.
We have reached a cynical age, and I despise things that increase our mutual cynicism of one another. The profiting from friendships is surely the height of that cynicism.