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Identity - Just This
Tomorrow is The Second Life/Orange Island Identity Summit. Thanks to dandellion Kimban for telling me about it!

It looks great, but I'm pretty confident that nothing I might hear tomorrow could touch what I've seen tonight. My dear new friend Kit Meredith told me yesterday that she's in Robbie Dingo's new video, Masks, and has a wonderful blog post about it. The video is - if I have to resort to words, *magnificent.*

I'm occasionally asked to talk about identity in SL, and it is my favorite subject. I'm sure I'll end up spewing tens, hundreds, of thousands of words on the subject. But the *best* thing I will ever say is, "Watch 'Masks.'" *This* is what it's all about: the sheer, shivery *beauty* of who we are - not Hollywood Botox beauty, but the aching loveliness of True Selves, of who we *are* made manifest, of the transcendence of inheritance and circumstance to the revealing of our exquisite naked souls.

Here is "Masks." Watch it and be in awe of Robbie's talent and our own human glory:

Now: you and I and those lovely people in that video, we're just the spray at the front of the wave. The wave is coming, and it's going to encompass the atomic world as well. Here's an article from The Guardian: I'm having my wings done But it's not about SL, and doesn't even mention synthetic worlds.  It's about radical atomic-body modification, what Warren Ellis calls Grinding.  It's coming, and before terribly long, atomic people will have the freedom we do, to make their True Selves manifest.

Then there will be no denying - we are perfect, and beautiful, powerful and magnificent.