Let's say he's drawing in pen and makes a big mistake, or the pen bursts and spurts ink all over the drawing. What he do? Ctrl+Z, right? Wrong.
What happens to us when we start to believe that nothing we do is necessarily permanent, that everything can be undone with the push of a button? The "cut and paste" mentality of virtual reality doesn't always hold true for real life. Knowing (or at least believing) that what I put on the internet doesn't have to be permanent might cause me to have one of two attitudes, or a combination of both:
1. "I can ridicule and demoralize people on the internet... I can always delete it later."
1. "I can ridicule and demoralize people on the internet... I can always delete it later."
"Four things come not back - the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life and the neglected opportunity."

2. "I can publish something now, even though it's incomplete... I can always change it later."
Is the assumption that I can go back and "tweak" whatever I've created always necessarily a bad thing? Maybe not. In Digital Civilization, we are encouraged to publish blog posts even if they're not polished or even complete (that explains his blog posts, you might be thinking). Knowing that my publication will be there to alter later if needed, I can put it out there now and see what happens. Although I'm still learning how to do that, I suppose it can definitely be a good thing.
So... I'm going to post this now and tweak it later. After all, I can do that.
I really liked this post. I notice that most of the comments people make are negative. It’s too bad and makes it look like only negative people live in our world. I think many of the positive people out there don’t even bother to read the trash in the comment section. They’d rather not be tainted.
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