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Why Demosthenes?
Several reasons:
Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card was one of my favourite books growing up. In the book, political power is leveraged through online debate by Ender’s siblings, Valentine and Peter, via the pseudonyms of Demosthenes and Locke, a concept that grabbed my imagination. (Even XKCD has referenced it).
As a historical figure Demosthenes was inspirational to me, epitomizing the qualities of self-improvement, self-reliance, rhetoric, honour, and logical argument.
I have used Demosthenes as an online identity for the past three decades, drifting away from it only as I began to abandon Orson Scott Card as a writer in response to his puerile anti-gay screeds and Mormon literalism.