Xah's Edu Corner: accountability & lying thru the teeth

[Claudio Grondi]

Anno Siegel wrote:
> Xah Lee <xah at xahlee.org> wrote in comp.lang.perl.misc:
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>>...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