Why Lance Cottrell defends Anonymity

The battle over the role of anonymity continues to rage. Mostly, it is those who are frustrated that they are unable to attack YOU instead of your IDEAS with which they might disagree with evangelical fervor. A primary function of anonymity is to protect humans from unjust retaliation for holding unconventional or even threatening ideas that might prove to influence society away from it's current configuration. Tyrants have always resorted to name-calling, marginalizing, and defending their status quo by threat of violence because there is nothing more dangerous to a tyrant than an idea who's time has come; whether that be democracy, or the technoprogressive advancement and enhancement of persons exercising their supposedly inalienable right to LIBERTY from social and character assassinations by those defenders of the Static Norm who seek to keep the world under their collective analogical thumbs.

If not for voices of reason such as Lance Cottrell, your right to Grow, Adapt, and Evolve over time could become permanently revoked by those who seek to strap you down permanently to the current version of you and your developing opinions, your evolving online and offline identity.

In "A question of identity," Lance does an excellent job of describing the practical foundations for many of the values promoted and defended in this blog. It's worth the click.