Elvis Obama
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It is astounding when you consider it. Look at the statistics for this board. Millions of posts. Millions! But how much of it is human? How much of it is like the "real world" interactions you describe? Can you imagine acting like this in public? Going off on someone because they disagree with you about something?It's not the fact that all aspects of human existence are politicized. I understand that. What I can't understand is this hyper-partisanship, which I don't think is related at all to how people actually think and feel. What's it really all about?
1- Personal rage: People are angry. Really angry. They looove the net, because they can act like animals with impunity. Let their anger off the leash. Libturds/Conservitards like you just don't get it!! Ahhhhh, that felt so gooood! Sock puppet, SOCK PUPPET!. Seriously, has any intelligent human being ever used the phrase "sock puppet"? What a wasteland of people shouting past each other.
2- Divide and conquer. The people who should get the attention, who are really responsible for our ills, the criminals who steal our political representation, get people riled up over the wrong things, to deflect attention from themselves. It's so easy, and has been so successful since the dawn of time. Defend the walls! The invaders are coming, this time in the guise of swishy penguins!! It's a literal labyrinth of irrationality, but the hyper-partisan warriors nonetheless mount the battlements to fight the good fight! It's so tedious!
There are many things that transcend politics, politics isn't everything. I have many friends who are actual Liberals, we rarely discuss politics, but we do discuss films, music, art, architecture and various sports.
I have no time for people who think politics is EVERYTHING, and as a Right-Winger they could NEVER be friends with a Liberal or as a Liberal they could NEVER be friends with a Right-Winger. Such people are not only emotionally immature, they're also pretty sad individuals to be so incredibly small-minded and petty.
On this forum one example, that's Pogo, he's completely on the Left, but we get along wonderfully....more people should try it.
When the net was first spreading in the late eighties/early nineties, people expected that it would be a great boon to democracy. Unfortunately, like TV before it, the net has become a vast wasteland. Even here, in the CDZ, a tiny oasis intended to operate under the kind of rules which all forums should operate under, the strange distruptors can't resist showing up to troll. People who hate the Palestinians and people who hate the Israelis don;t want to talk to each other. They want to bash each other over the head. They come here to do so, verbally, and if you try to discuss solutions to that conflict, they don't wanna know about it. They don't want any solution beyond a scorched earth policy. They don't want to lose that focus for their hate.