thread: 2005-11-22 : A Seriously Social Issue
On 2005-11-28, Ron Edwards wrote:
Um, actually, I've sacrificed a considerable amount for Adept Press and the independent community. Some of it's personal. A lot of it is professional, mainly in terms of time. A fantastic amount is emotional and social, on-line; moderating the Forge is emphatically not a fulfilling task.
I can see the "suffering" thing quite easily, although the "visionary" part is debatable. (Demonstrably debatable, I dare say ...)
But really, never mind the suffering-visionary thing. I wasn't talking about that at all in the essay, and I consider it a perversion of my point. My point concerns sacrificing human interactions like friendship and romantic commitment and trust, when push comes to shove. Will you put your friendship at risk, there at the table, by using your secret one-on-one knowledge, entrusted to you in confidence two years ago, as fictional story-meat in the middle of addressing Premise?
I will. I have. It doesn't make me a better person. And it may not even have contributed to Good Art (I think I'm not the right person to judge that). But that's why I did it, because that's what I was trying to produce.
