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RE: Writing, Privacy, and the Chilling Effect of Surveillance - Is Someone Reading Your Diary?
Hmm, I've always had some or other notebook knocking about since I could write basically and anyone reading my stuff without permission is in for a world of shit. This is quite possibly a friendship/relationship ending crime. Not because I'm writing anything so awful I can't bear for it to be read. Because it's a safe space. The one place I can process thoughts I don't necessarily want to talk to anyone about.
I had one particularly raw journal (electronic) which I wrote in daily during a very rough period, but that one was deleted beyond recovery once done 😂
(Scary that all the key-strokes get logged though, so who knows really?)
It can be satisfying to produce a work of art and then let it go/destroy it/delete it.
I guess this is what chefs do all day long.
I think a lot of this "safe space" talk is overdone in universities and schools. Kids are going there to be challenged, not coddled.
But our personal notebooks and computers - those should be the ultimate safe spaces - second only to our brains.
Yeah, I'm very much on the 'don't ever read other people's things, period' page. So people who read their partners emails and texts are also a big wtf for me.
I agree that people at uni should be jolted out of their comfort zone. Complacency at university level is running entirely counter to the point as far as I'm concerned but sadly, having dealt with students, they don't seem to share that idea 😬
Oh, I bet. If you do some teaching you're right on the front lines.
I would be terrified to be a professor today. (Not that I'm qualified...)