Palace Planet the Palace Chat community Portal: The Lost art of conversation

The Lost art of conversation
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Moon on 15/04/2009 18:54:00
 
A chat room is a medium dedicated to the practice of the fading art of
conversation. Today's palaces are growing into fields of answering machines
where indifference has become the common trademark. There is more to human
relationships than a triggered welcome back  or an auto greeter that makes no
difference between letters and symbols. Sometimes I wonder if it is too much
asking from the so call chatters to be expecting them to talk instead of letting
their borg masquerade as human conversation.
It is amazing what you can find when you open a borg these days. How many ways
are there for telling people that you are going in brb and is it an event worthy
of a fourth of July firework display? Three years ago I released the only script
I ever wrote for borgs to find out two weeks later that someone else was
claiming copyright to it. Palace bragging has always won out over creativity.
The last borg I opened had my script in eight modified versions redundant of
each other without my name mentioned anywhere. Our collective imagination is
slowly getting suffocated by the newly self-crowned Borg Kings who are cleverer
to expose their stupidity rather than accomplishing anything productive. Who are
we to pretend to package a universe of emotional expression in a one paragraph
script release on a single word command? We don't share our dreams anymore
because we drive ourselves to borgdom.
In a chat program, the free flow of conversation
is what makes the cyber world go round. Every palace's rules and chat room
should be based upon that simple principle. Interaction between humans, exchange
of ideas and feelings in the action of a conversation is what chatting is all
about. Borgs are definitely redundant but that is my personal opinion.
But did you have any significant conversation today?
And in the end, when you finished reading this article, you will have only one
question on your mind, what the heck is it with that ~=MOON=~ guy?
Many thanks to Saraisme from The Midnight Rambler for her help and support.