Got a post from a guy who was fired for his blogging. He raises some interesting issues about an individual’s public and private lives in this increasingly connected era.

It also makes me think I shouldn’t talk about braining people with robots, or at least not specific people who could figure out I’m talking about them.

I used a particular person as an example in an attempt to make a general introduction to the concept of objectifying cognition more approachable. I suppose though I can get the same effect using a fictitious person.

Sigh, the thing is I don’t even really know how I feel. I respect the fact that my writing can be taken out of context and could be used by a malicious party to negatively portray myself or someone else. We do live in a world though where the slightest nuance of language is subject to scrutiny, so I suppose it’s better safe than sorry.

Years from now when I’ve got tenure or am dead or whatever, I’m going to try and get the sum total of my writing online. There’s some interesting themes that recur over the years. I’ll not have the freedom to do that for quite a while though.

Off to censor myself and correct my indiscretions…