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In the face of a growing culture that makes it wildly impossible for me to enjoy my life, with rigorous criticism and the only friend to be my Terminal and vim
by wittysense 13y ago
In the face of a growing culture that makes it wildly impossible for me to enjoy my life, with rigorous criticism and the only friend to be my Terminal and vim where I can type out, hundreds of times a day, things like "$ jangyrun" and "$ git down master"; in the face of speculation of psychosis due to use of the computer system; in the face of a heavily sexist technoculture and a "Black" culture to which I am expected to account for or justify, wherein it itself is ragingly sexist:
You win. I am crushed. I will wander these days, perchance sharing what little I know of front-end architecture, but beyond this, I can put forth nothing else. I expect many other developers to fold under the crushing weight of a country lacking any orchestration what-so-ever.
And my only lullaby is the dictum, from all of you, that I am "always wrong." No wonder people stand aback, shocked, when I call myself an "idiot" or a "moron." No wonder I seem crude and jaded to women, because when things do not work, they "die" or cumbersome, inelegant, "programmer-talk" is just "more efficient" or what have you; jargon files trapped in the insufficiently neuroplastic fabric-circuitry that is my constructed "mind."
If my hands were not so fully alive, from these years of writing code, I would have absolutely nothing to live for. I thank this country for that. And yes, I realize that I am over-generalizing, and I am probably wrong. Or I need more clarity. Or I write too emotionally. Or I'm "batshit." Even you call me a "fool" or go beyond the constraint of constructive criticism to inform me that "dyslexia is a niche" and therefore it is "ugly" -- that I am wasting my time.
You did not understand one of these sentences produced here. Of course you didn't.
With hope, the next simulation will be less cruel, or I will simply obey conceptual schemes which generally give us concepts like "banned books" or "dangerous ideas."
I will leave you with this, and then I will cease to bother Your Technological Society: Quot capita tot sensus.