The Futility of The Hoi Polloi
Aug. 17th, 2011 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nebris~Earlier today I posted my Budget Crisis Meme over on the Talk Politics Comm. This is a good example what I mean by Meta-Trolling, re stirring up conflict in order to make a Point, as opposed to regular old Trolling, which is stirring up shit just to be a dick...though of course dickishness is certainly part and parcel of Meta-Trolling as well.
So, a few days ago one of the Mods wrote me a long LJ/PM saying he'd seen/read me etc on The Recession and thought my thoughts interesting and would I consider joining his Comm and so on. Apparently he'd forgotten that he and I had flamed rather severely in Under-L's LJ some time last year[?] and that he'd been so ticked off he'd banned my from his own LJ, which I don't think I ever even got to.
My post has the Comm 'all a buzz' – though they seem a might Drama Queenish over there anyway – and I'm not really laughing, but am more cynically amused. There's all this fighting and snarking and dick-swinging about What Is Right, most of it totally ignoring that The Power of The Corporate State is presently Transcendent and that all this is akin to arguing over the details of one's own funeral.
However, this outcome does also point out the general pointlessness of most Meta-Trolling in that those being Trolled, as a rule, will never get the Point being made. It's only use is as an example to display for the detached outside observer...and the Point, more or less, is:
“Our choice as a species is either between the triumph of an essentially fascist Global Corporate Combine – which is pure Patriarchy – a path to near extinction as a species at best or total extinction at worst. Or the New Matriarchy as proposed by my Spirit Guide. That there are other paths is certainly possible, but none of them seem at all likely.”
Of course, if you're a regular reading de moi, you know that already. And so it is....
So, a few days ago one of the Mods wrote me a long LJ/PM saying he'd seen/read me etc on The Recession and thought my thoughts interesting and would I consider joining his Comm and so on. Apparently he'd forgotten that he and I had flamed rather severely in Under-L's LJ some time last year[?] and that he'd been so ticked off he'd banned my from his own LJ, which I don't think I ever even got to.
My post has the Comm 'all a buzz' – though they seem a might Drama Queenish over there anyway – and I'm not really laughing, but am more cynically amused. There's all this fighting and snarking and dick-swinging about What Is Right, most of it totally ignoring that The Power of The Corporate State is presently Transcendent and that all this is akin to arguing over the details of one's own funeral.
However, this outcome does also point out the general pointlessness of most Meta-Trolling in that those being Trolled, as a rule, will never get the Point being made. It's only use is as an example to display for the detached outside observer...and the Point, more or less, is:
“Our choice as a species is either between the triumph of an essentially fascist Global Corporate Combine – which is pure Patriarchy – a path to near extinction as a species at best or total extinction at worst. Or the New Matriarchy as proposed by my Spirit Guide. That there are other paths is certainly possible, but none of them seem at all likely.”
Of course, if you're a regular reading de moi, you know that already. And so it is....
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Date: 2011-08-19 03:28 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-08-19 04:38 pm (UTC)~M~