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…So, I haven't peeked into rec.arts.bodyart for I think months now, but I got a message that I should take a look. What do I find, but a MASSIVE thread debating IAM and my value! Weird stuff…

People debating whether I'm as much as “hero” as Fakir, Jim Ward, and stuff like that… Ha ha. Anyway. I'm not particularly convinced that either Fakir or Jim or I are heroes. Fakir has done some neat stuff, documented it, and is good at promoting himself. He's no more hero than any rock star. Jim Ward was a successful small fringe business owner who was at the right place in the right time — no more a hero than the guy who opens the first ethnic restaurant in whiteyville. I just happen to be a good programmer and good organizer of data who was in the right place at the right time. I know there's more to it in each of our cases, but that's the simple story.

In all of our cases, no matter what recognition, or lack of it, we're simply the visible tips of the iceberg. It isn't about us at all — we're only symptoms of a resurrection of a certain kind of carnal knowledge that the West forgot for a while. A lot of you have met me at the BBQ — I'm a pretty normal guy. I assure you that Fakir and Jim are also just as human.

If you want a hero, look at the forty year old guy that gets over his fear and pierces his nipple because it turns him on. If you want a hero, look at the thirty year old woman who chooses her labret over her high-paying job. If you want a real hero, look at the piercer who lives in a crappy apartment and makes below minimum wage in their piercing job, when they could quit and make more as a programmer, because they know they're helping people. If you want a hero, find the anonymous tattoo artist that spends a little bit more time with every client making sure they get something special.

Wow Shannon, that's really annoying! What is it, 1997 on Geocities? Retroweb is NOT cool!

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