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Virtual reality is getting wilder and more real all the time. At the paralled e-world known as Second Life, we are seeing real-world politics playing out with some passion, though apparently the French are more into it than we are:

PARIS, March 29 -- In a battle between push guns and pig grenades, the exploding pigs won.

The clash started on a January morning when protesters attacked the cyberspace headquarters of extremist French presidential candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in the popular 3-D Internet fantasy world Second Life.

Le Pen security forces responded with push guns, whimsical digital weapons that tossed bodies through the air "like rag dolls," according to one witness. Protesters fought back with pig grenades, firing fat pink porkers that exploded in neon pink splatters. When the shooting ended, Le Pen's headquarters lay in ruins, deserted by staff and guards.

The confrontation in Second Life -- the parallel online universe where players cloak their alter egos in cartoonlike bodies -- demonstrated the rising impact of the newest cyber-venue for politicians trying to promote real-world campaigns.
I like this development, myself, though Monk is as timid and reluctant to join and get involved in these e-worlds as he is in real life, but this seems more approachable, and one of these days...

I already proposed to one of my e-crushes to be my e-wife at one of these parallel e-worlds, thinking of Second Life, but I get e-rejected as readily as I get rejected. The line between e-life and real life is perhaps more illusory than we would like to think, though one fancies that it could be a realm to just play out our fantasies without regard for our real-person limitations and shortcomings, where we are limited only by our sexy imagination. It would just be important not to get carried away and try to take the fun to real life.


(Source: Molly Moore for The Washington Post)

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