WHY I AM NOT ANON

The reason I am not Anon is that the philosopher John Stuart Mill, in his fine essay On Liberty, says a progressive country can quickly become a backward country if there is a decrease in Individuality. Particularly in my case I think it would be a grave mistake to become Anon. In me you behold someone said to have helped invent the net at 7: when the idea of the net needed storing in writing in the attic here to give it a chance to grow all the way round the world it was me that wrote it. At 8 I was the witness from The Lords And The New You Know Who twice making weird observations. At 11 I went through an experiment into the maths of the new colour and was marked by it. At 15 I attained the face which may have been scripted in the Bible. At 18 I forewarned of September 11th in 2000 and wrote an English Literature A-level exam essay marked at 100%. After school you find I recorded an album on binaural earphones, had an effervescent mobile reverberating the rhythm of ‘William Tell’ through every technological inlet in the room before it rang, hosted the Plough alignment for a rhythm change in the White House, got a First despite mental illness, worked the numinous, purple-bleeding screen, built the Tower as an instrument of philosophy, conducted an experiment into a cassette tape with a pause where cut and resealed in the flimsy reel, and discovered the sheet where pictures (seemingly depicting my own song lyric) grew. I would hazard a guess that to make someone with a CV like that Anon would represent the exact decrease in Individuality John Stuart Mill warns of. Besides, it’s illegal to force someone into Anonymity, if they don’t want it, and I don’t – there is something called the Right to Attribution.