It seems like most people will agree that they would like if they were treated by other people based on what they have concretely done in their life, not what other people have done, with their lives.
Tao LinYou were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.
Tao LinOne seemed simply to be here, less an accumulation of moments than a single arrangement continuously gifted from some inaccessible future.
Tao LinI'm a shy, nervous person, and I don't like teaching with "terms." I didn't teach them, like, "This is first person, this is second person, this is foreshadowing," or whatever, so no one probably felt like they were learning anything. But I feel like teaching in that way reduces the concept to a term.
Tao LinI think mostly the commodifying comes after I've done something that has some other value to me.
Tao LinFocusing on being a person instead of an Asian or an [anything] seems to promote a worldview that encourages people to treat others based on what each person has specifically done in their life, which seems like it would reduce such things as war, racism, unfairness, "hate crimes," [other things most people feel aversion toward].
Tao Lin