We have a report from the fj.life.in-japan Dynamics Officer that Declan Murphy
has exploded. Flight director confirms that:

>On Feb 15, 3:32?pm, The 2-Belo <the2b...@msdREMOVETHIS.biglobe.ne.jp>
>wrote:
>
>> >Ego is a factor, but I think its also a case of isolation,
>> >disappointment, some boredom perhaps (he isn't a stupid man, but made
>> >life choices that bore him), mixed with a mild but forgivable/
>> >understandable dash of mental illness.
>>
>> This part below was a good way to describe it:
>>
>> >His writing is a sort of therapy. Gives him a sense of purpose,
>> >gets things off his chest.
>>
>> Funny, this is a similar reason I started writing all those nasty rants back in
>> the early 2000s when I was locked up in the Philippine corporate factory gulags
>> and had nothing else to do with all eight or nine minutes of free time.
>>
>> Thanks. While I'm still in no way changed in my opinions about the guy, I
>> understand his motivations a little bit now.
>
>Do you still write rants? Some of them were quite entertaining, some
>informative and thought provoking (the follow-up article to the
>firebombing of Gifu for example), while others did reek a bit of the
>isolation thingee.

No... likely my return from purgatory to settle down into a regular IT-oriented
desk job here in Nagoya killed the revolutionary rant-spirit. The isolation
thingie was the result of being in the Philippines, not Japan.

I can only get angry about mundane things anymore -- the inanity of bosses; how
the general populace can be dicks (Dear People who Park Diagonally Across Two
Handicapped Parking Spaces: Die. Love, The 2); and how there seems to be an
industrial vacuum cleaner attached to my pay statement every month. None of
these subjects is worth maintaining a web site for, so I switched over to
photography in 2004 and went from there. (I've now been published in the Gifu
Shimbun three times. :))

One of these days I'll have completed my years-long downtown rephotography
project (I take a photo of the same spot every year; I'm up to 6 years' worth
now) and put that up. But my life is now far too routine and predictable to
write about. I suppose that's a good thing.


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