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diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/038-agency.7 b/www/text.causal.agency/038-agency.7 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..f99a070b --- /dev/null +++ b/www/text.causal.agency/038-agency.7 @@ -0,0 +1,85 @@ +.Dd April 14, 2022 +.Dt AGENCY 7 +.Os "Causal Agency" +. +.Sh NAME +.Nm Agency +.Nd origin of a name +. +.Sh DESCRIPTION +When I registered this domain name, +it was aspirational. +Intentionally so. +I wanted a new domain +for a new identity, +and I was thinking about personhood. +That's what causal agency means. +. +.Pp +It really was aspirational +for me at the time. +I spent a lot of time +wishing I could be a person, +because I didn't feel like one. +I didn't feel real, +like everyone else was. +I didn't have any power +over my own life. +Things just happened to me, +and I watched. +There wasn't really a +.Dq me +there. +The world was something that happened +but that I couldn't interact with. +I felt like that +for most of my life. +. +.Pp +But at some point +I decided that, +even if I wasn't now, +one day I hoped to be an actual real life person. +Like most programmers +I am dreadful at naming things, +so I didn't come up +with this clever domain name +myself. +I typed +.Dq person +into some thesaurus, +and it gave back +.Dq causal agent , +and I realized +agency is a TLD now. +. +.Pp +Maybe it's a little dramatic +to label myself with the thing +I didn't think I had. +But who knows, +maybe it helped. +Because it took a few years, +but I did become a person. +I feel real now. +I can change my own life +and the world around me. +I have causal agency. +. +.Pp +I am really proud of this domain name. +I'm proud to put it on everything I make. +Every instance of it +is a reminder +that I did what I set out to do, +and that I'm still doing it. +. +.Sh AUTHORS +.An june Aq Mt june@causal.agency +. +.Pp +If anything in this post resonates with you, +I want you to know that, +whatever you think you can't do, +it is possible, +and you'll get there one day. diff --git a/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile b/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile index 101a2745..d19aed7c 100644 --- a/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile +++ b/www/text.causal.agency/Makefile @@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ TXTS += 034-voices.txt TXTS += 035-addendum-2021.txt TXTS += 036-compassion.txt TXTS += 037-care.txt +TXTS += 038-agency.txt all: colb ${TXTS} |