Anno Siegel wrote: > Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc: > > >>...a mechanism, so that any fuckhead tech geekers with their >>loud cries will hurt badly when they open their mouths in public... In this above I hear the voice of someone badly disappointed seeking an apology and excuse for being in that condition in the world around and not inside himself. My guess from the experience of being, as Usenet newbie, first a victim of Xah trolls and from the experience of watching Xah activities over currently more than one year, is that: The turning point, when one could start to be like Xah is, when suddenly for oneself some simple truths which has not been recognized for so long before, get revealed before the inner mental eye. One finds himself in a situation where own past stupidity becomes so apparent, that it is hard to accept this fact as it is. The ways to manage such condition can be very different. One of the possibilities is to look for the 'outside' reasons and make them responsible for the misery. There was, is and will be always enough idiocy around, disguised as by many people fully accepted absolute truths, which can be made guilty of keeping a believing them individual relatively stupid for a very long time (or even forever). The revelation of the simply fact, that one was 'cheated' for so long by from the just achieved point of view as impertinent insulting and stupid considered authorities without being able to see it directly already in the past, hurts so much, that it results in strong emotional reaction manifestating itself often also in using many dirty words. It almost appears in this context, that the past ignorance could be considered a blessing ... After the first caused by the above effect deep depressions has been overcome, it can happen, that one starts to hope to manage the misery by getting in touch with others to share the just reached level of enlightenment in order to progress towards getting rid of eventually still existing remaining wrong believes. The result of this approach can be the experience, that there is as good as none to oneself meaningful response and instead of being understood one is accused of trolling. At that point two aspects important in someones life can start to compete against each other: the accumulated experience and insight, that it makes not much sense to ask the most important to oneself questions publicly and the need for staying in active relationship and mental exchange with others. The outcome of such battle can be, that the only way out of this dilemma is to actually start to troll to get some fun out of the responses and to get the feeling of having impact on others. There are sure many other ways to manage the situation of becoming smarter than before and of staying in contact with many others - Xah has chosen to become a troll as one of the most easy variant out of them. I hope, that one day, he stops to misjudge own level of enlightenment and starts to gain satisfaction out of searching for an also for another people valuable way out of the misery his intellect is trapped in instead of continuing his mostly trolling motivated postings.
By the way: I found _this_ posting by Xah very interesting and even if maybe not at first glance noticeable, very close related to what is all the time and continuously hot discussed in the programming related newsgroups. I don't expect Xah to read and reply to this posting, but in spite of this, I would be glad to hear from him here, how my guess is close to his actual motivation. > > > Yeah, good idea! Sure it would be very interesting to see the bets and the reasoning behind the pro and contra. Claudio > > Anno -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
