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20050615 Wednesday June 15, 2005
One Free Minute ... in Kewl

What would you say, given one free minute of anonymous, uncensored speech? A very cool idea indeed. I highly recommend watching the video - the setting up part is intriguing onto itself. The first call grabs your attention: ""I have cancer ... and cancer sucks"

I had a vision that this would take the place of the raving lunatics that spout obcenities and other random interjections at no one particular in the Tenderloin. Welcome to modern world, where you too can be a madman without the being revealed as such. But on the other hand, you could be brilliant, and profoundly impact a stranger with words that snuck out the back door of your heart.

So, what would you say?

Comments:

There's an interesting connection between this challenge and the question that I blogged about a couple of days ago:

Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers?

See also the Paul Graham piece What You Can't Say

As to how I would use an uncensored minute, I would probably read something by Thomas Paine.

Posted by Geoff Arnold on June 15, 2005 at 11:37 AM PDT #

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