I'm reading the online version of the book "Accessibilità, guida completa" (accessibility, complete guide) by Michele Diodati, trying to collect all the info I need to get back to my Pyg (progetto yayo giapponario, yayo japanary project). I'm also making out of it a set of short notes with only the base concepts, to use it later as a reference guide.
I'm impressd by the amount of things required to develope a real accessible website, or better, as much as possible, being total accessibility sadly not achievable. Luckily I'll don't need to do all the things suggested by that book, since I'll produce only text and static-pictures. Well, at the beginning at least..
But it's still a big work to do. I wonder if I'll be able to really make something valid, in the end. To be honest I wonder if I'll really be able to get something done.. anyway, the code as I left it was yet ready to make a double version of the site, a graphical one and a text based one. Maybe it's a good start point. I doubt..
Then I'll also need to read some other stuff about security..
Duh, a load of work..
Talking about non technical things, I recently passed through a bad and stressing phase, with many hight and low pitches (more low than hight).
I left a web-community, after being an active member for a short amount of time, because of some sad fighting with other members: once again relations are for me source of stress and frustration.
It seems that the majority of the persons don't known of such important things like humility and correctness.
Well, saying that all the persons that I known are made this way would be false and unfair, and my recent post titled "May, 18th" proves it. Sometimes situations revert unexpectedly, and surely there are also valid persons around.
But sadly facts show me that they are a very little amount. And being my emotivity highly sensitive..
I just finished reading the Lone Wolf & Cub manga by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. It's the story of a samurai victim of a conspiracy by the rival clan, who plans a revenge and then starts killing people for money, followed by his young son.
I noticed how etiquette and honor code are constantly remarked, with some very peculiar scenes, that would be unconceivable for us today.
A gently asked duel to the death, being this the only possible way to fix honor issues, according to the customs of samurais, but never keeping grudge to the opponent.
Exchanging name and martial art school name or lineage before each planned duel, but always being the challenger offering his own for first.
Or, referring to a specified scene, the 3 years old son, hungry, who lags in front of bids left for a little buddha statue, deciding in the end to take them, but only leaving some of his clothes in exchange before.
Or again taking as a big honor the command of the lord to make seppuku (ritual suicide), something to be thankful for.
In all the work (28 books) it's constantly remarked how person's value depends on both honor and humility.
Dropping honor issues, a value now no longer part of modern society ethic --oriental as well as occidental, perceived today rather basically as a rule of the big crime organizations, like mafia or yakuza, and which lefts dedication as the only almost positive derivation, perhaps still meaningful--, I can't really avoid to see a connection with the total lack of humility that I perceive in the persons that I meet (almost totally in the net, in my case).
I'm not saying that samurai's society was better, of course.
But the diffuse behaviour as I see it, is to consider self opinions as proved facts, so that people almost always talks by assumed points. People blames the interlocutor, but never gives him credit for his thoughts or for his good moves. People takes but never giving back, and anything which should be correctly acknowledged, is always taken as done, at the point of ignore it and forget it.
Sadly this doesn't match my mind.
I always forced myself to point to correctness when socializing with people, trying to interact by steps, always offering my thought rather than imposing it, linking with every blame I felt to give, also all my acknowledge for any correct thought I saw coming from the person I was talking to.
But never or almost never finding equal reply --as it should be foreseeable, I guess, simpleminded me waiting for something different-- all this becomes every time only a waste of energy and a source of frustration.
Lately I also started being worried af having the chance to share my thoughts. Also about this very blog, which is in itself a way to do it. (Maybe I should close it.. it's not all that useful, actually.. I wonder how many of all those visitors are real persons rather than bots, and how many of them come back time by time, to read again what I have to say..)
Sometimes I feel that my attempts to express my mind, despite all my efforts to offer them as a valuable contribute, are in the end taken as an excuse to start a desolate ideological fight: me and my thought are used, becoming an enemy to fight, rather than an interlocutor to share points of view with, elaborating them to get new ideas, useful for both of us.
Sadly in this way everyone just talks over himself..
I think I'll have to learn to check carefully the persons who I want to interact with, discarding everyone who:
1_ considers himself superior,
2_ talks by assumed points, considering --knowing it or not-- his opinions as a fact,
3_ offends, on purpose or not,
4_ denies to the counterpart any acknowledgement, 'till the point of ignoring the meaning of "to apologize".
a picture from LoneWolf&Cub ©K.Koike/G.Kojima
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