Privacy, and “Something Bad that Turned Out Fine in the End”

A couple of interesting things in the October 25, 2010 New Yorker, which I read last night 3 AM hot bath couldn’t sleep.

“Young people discovering their identity and their desires need a zone of privacy where they can be who they are, perhaps in the company of another human being, without feeling that somebody else might be tweeting it, filming it, or blogging about it, or that maybe they themselves ought to be--there’s such a thing as violating your own privacy, too. The unobserved life is so totally worth living.”

--Pride and Prejudice, Margaret Talbot

Interesting to read the week I start a blog.

And, about the rescued Chilean miners:

“…it is a story of something bad that turned out fine in the end. … Only in a handful of stories…is there hope of a true happy ending, in which losses are restored and sorrows cease. … Thirty-three men can now say, for the rest of their lives, ‘At least I’m not trapped down at the bottom of a mine.’ … People are trapped by circumstances; other people help them. There is a way out. Since this is the fable that every life hopes to trace, maybe the madness isn’t so mad at all.”

--A Way Out, Adam Gopnik