Ignorance is Relative

Tonight I took a walk with one of my best friends. He had finally read my blog and wanted to know more. Besides wanting to know more about blogging itself (and suggesting that he start a blog to tell people not to read mine - cheeky boy) he specifically wanted to discuss my Second Life post. He was confused. The conversation went something like this:

"I didn't get it."

"What do you mean you didn't get it?"

"I didn't get it."

"Like you didn't get what I wrote, or you didn't get the concept."

"The concept - I didn't understand what it was. I didn't get it."

What followed was me explaining Second Life and my post on programs that encourage a virtual life and every sentence or so he saying:

"But it's not real..."

"Right. [Moving on with explanation] And then they..."

"But it's not real."

"Right. So it...".

"But it's not real."

"Right, still they participate because to them it is real..."

"But it's not."

God love him in his ignorance of the vast nature and wonder of the digital landscape. I do appreciate his firm stance in reality.